My Channel Was Deleted Last Night
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Never been 17 seconds early 💀
LOL
So who did this?
Hi
@@Nitsua_YT same lol
Tech tip: don’t get hacked
Solid tip, bro.
Yes
Thanks bro
Tech tip: never use any tech, how are you gonna have any problems with it then
Nice tip my brother
I feel bad for the poor editor who had to blur out his boss’ junk today.
lmao
🍓? Is that the new eggplant? Should have been a banana 🍌 😕 🙄
@@chapmanncheung4170 it’s probably meant to represent his “berries” (balls)
soon the leaked scene of him running down the stairs nekked will go viral...Colton's fault, of course.
onlyfans would probs be a good business decision lol
I love how DBRAND jumped at the chance to completely troll Linus in his hour of need.
Whomever is in charge of their social media must be an epic troll.
Some one who used whom correctly?????!!!!
@@HunterVibez It makes perfect sense when you consider that it's my second language.
@@FrobergDK I just see no one use it correctly
@@HunterVibez lets be real English is broken glass full of small particles none of the particals are perfect and it cannot be molded to be perfect for everyone so just mold it to be perfect for you and make it understandable for others
@@HunterVibezidk if I'm an idiot but whom is the object form. wouldn't that be "Whoever is in charge" seeing as in this case "Whoever" is the subject?
I'm a security data scientist for a bank, which most of the time makes me feel pretty paranoid about the level of care I take when dealing with digital content, but stories like this make me feel a little less crazy.
your not crazy enough
You should get even more paranoid depending on your levels. Keep your nogging working and thinking about ways to avoid trouble. (Of course, only if you can deal about that. No use stressing over things you can't deal with.)
@@mattsopiratoso790 Oh I have to be plenty already. I don't know whether it's because of my job or just really advanced data mining, but I've had emails and texts sent to me that used very tangential details about my life to sell the illusion, and my employer has told me straight up that they've found bounties on me and my whole team on the dark web. And I don't even have any real power or anything lol. I'm just a convenient potential entry point, like a lot of others. It's creepy to think about, but that's where we are today. The sophistication of black hats has increased to an almost unbelievable degree.
Not a data scientist, just a lowly sys admin, but I completely understand. Security is such a fragile thing and we are never in control.
@@jamesstack7237 Oh come on now, some of my best friends are sys admins 😁 Actually, I would think your value as a target would be even higher than mine. My code runs over sensitive datasets, but I myself don't even have access to them. Typically I only have access to extracts in dev and it's our devops guys and gals who have access to silver and gold that place my code in production.
Most impressive part of all of this is how the company took responsibility instead of throwing an employee under the bus like SO MANY OTHERS DO.
surly his wife help him to understand that.
@@daveballsack2038 he meant LTT not blaming the employee. Not TH-cam helping Linus
How can they possibly fire Linus. This channel is literally named after him.
I agree with you GreyAye. This is an impressive display of emotional intelligence. Managers and leaders everywhere should take note. This video should be featured in classes at universities teaching the subject. Linus is a role model in this case, FOR SURE.
@@jeremy-b Linus clearly said it's as much as a problem with TH-cam as with his company.
Also with your logic even TFA shouldn't be a thing, because "dOnt LeaK yoUr pAssWord gUys".
Man, my guy was so focused that he forgot to put clothes on. So much dedication to the channel. We would’ve felt the same, and were so glad you’re back.
I think it just goes to show how much of a panic he was in that he just had to get to his computer to attempt to shut down the hackers
Linus doesn't wear clothes at home ever.
Linus sleeps wearing LTT boxers (lttstore), but he got out of bed so fast that his clothes disintegrated.
Which one of the poor editors had to go through that footage tho
@@ohhBigBadWolf LMmao
Almost happened to me but caught quick. Then a month later it happened to my cameraman who has a small passion channel. I felt so bad but used my size to help him get it resolved quick. It shouldn’t be like that, smaller channels are just as important and should be able to get help quick. Let alone the amount of poor people who got scammed
Whats the name of his channel?
The minions are coming
@@PritamDavisa large amount of people rushing to a channel is not always good
@@XnoobSpeakable agreed
Thankfully the hack was resolved quickly, thanks to you! You are a true friend
I feel bad for small channels who get hacked, they just get wiped off the face of the earth and replaced by Elon Musk NFT Bitcoin Tesla Free Double Bitcoin streams.
This is why having windows default to not show file extensions is the biggest security problem since the internet has existed.
Another problem is that Windows likes to execute code from a non-executable file extension. It shouldn't execute ".pdf.exe" or ".exe.pdf". If it does anything, Windows should call the PDF software assigned to the PDF file extension, not execute the file and let it do whatever it wants. I wonder if this virus will get named LTT for worming its way into the LTT office.
Or just use a Mac or Linux.
That's not even the biggest problem. You can have unicode characters in file names. Seriously. Who wants a smiley in their file name. It also allows for the left to right override to exist. Which is also an huge security issue. But the actual worst part is that .lnk file extensions don't get shown. They can easily just download the malware via powershell and run it. Which is why I currently don't have the command prompt or powershell on my system. I only place it back when using sfc /scannow or when I just wanna use the command prompt.
@@seansingh4421😂😂😂😂😂
@@seansingh4421 They are all susceptible to those attacks, what is your point?
Linus was just so done, he couldn't even spell the offer code correctly anymore.
Take care, everyone! And thanks for the hard work!
😂 I noticed it and was like umm did I hear that correctly.
@@IncorrectTH-camUser I'm glad to hear I wasn't the only owne! 🤣
No it's cuz dbrand own him 😂
I came here to say this
He owned himself there.
The best part of this is the fact that dbrand not only jumped at that chance to help Linus, but is also roasting him at the same time.
dbrand just keeps "broasting" him XD
I mean, haven't you had a friend like that, who will pull your chain constantly, but be the most loyal friend you have? I have. I get it.
Did anyone else notice when he spelled out the discount code he added a "W" and spelled out "FIVEFOOTOWNE" lol
@@1racerboy1 lol glad I didn't hallucinate that thought I was chatgpt there for a sec
Don’t forget the user code FIVEFOOTOWNE as Linus said
Geez, what a mess. Glad you guys are handling it. I have to say this is the most sincere I feel I've ever seen Linus. This authentic display of feelings was nice to see for a change.
What's wild is that this can happen to literally any of us.. but when it happens to us, we (the average person) probably won't ever get our stuff back because we're nobodies in the grand scheme of things.
I really appreciate you verbally clarifying that no disciplinary action will be taken against your employees. Whoever it is, their world must have come crashing down when they realized what they'd done. I wouldn't be able to sleep at night. Being a calm, understanding employer is something the world needs.
Yeah, the last thing you need for better cybersecurity practices is a culture of blame and punishment
even then, how some of these scams work is by the scammer pretending to be a legitimate sponsor, with either a spoofed or faked address and a link to download some info on the sponsorship deal/contract, which is actually a Trojan horse that then uses your computer to hack the channel.
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Yeah
They don't let their employees share wage info.
Linus is the only one that manages to get a sponsor on board for an update video about his channels getting deleted
To be fair, it's dbrand, they are always here for apocalypses
dude is incredibly bussiness minded. Found out that people were stealing his videos and posting them on a mainland Chinese website so he contacted and hired them to make official translations of his videos and post them over there legally.
If you guys search for his reaction video to Chinese pc setups, you'll find him talking about it over there.
Probably gonna be one of the most watched videos this year so sponsors probably chomping at the bit to get the slot
even his sorrowful 😔 time is sponsered just to make him get ahead of it sooner 🤣
They should have gone with a new code like COLTONSFIRED
You've got a very loyal fan base..
Truly a treasure to have
The channel wasn't hacked, it was auctioned off.
you can really tell this man has had a rough day, starts out by stopping a cyber attack and finished by spelling ONE O-W-N-E. he's completely tapped after today, truly an inspiration.
The owne had me dead😂
@Dbrand - Need to add the code FIVEFOOTOWNE for your boy!
OWNE- forgot the D
Yea I caught that too lmao
Just checked and Linus' spelling mistake is an accepted code at dbrand, lol
Your wife helping you at 3am while you’re in your birthday suit is pure gold. Glad you’re back
Ya she seems to be the greatest sucess of his life :)
The kind of woman who pushes you forward to success, we all deserve one.
That's a high value woman
don’t forget the other wife Luke was ther 13:28
There's no way he was completely naked. But still funny. xD
I really appreciate the honesty and transparency. Such a crazy event, and something to look out for.
Nah, my heart goes out to you. I really enjoy your channel and I'm sad this happened to you.
The guy at DBrand that came out with this deserves a raise
It clearly worked, since project Killswitch is now out of stock until June
What about Steve at GN?
I'd value this video more as PSA than sponsored but I guess the hustle is real..
If they had even one thing I had even the slightest interest in or use for, I'd probably have bought something.
@@tntuofthat guy has a payroll that is amazing to behold, get out there and get yourself a DBrand skin for something to keep it all together.
Steve from GN is a solid dude for going out of his own way to inform you.
"Thanks STEVE!"
I understood that Intel reference.
We’re back to you Steve
This wouldn't have happened if the user that got socially engineered had the GEFORCE RTX 3080 TIE in his/her system.
I've been looking for this 😂
"Thanks Steve"!
Back to you Steve!
I love it that even you getting hacked is a fun video topic to watch.
All due respect admitting your mistakes and still making it a great video
Fun wat the f
7:47 bet Steve is regretting that text rn
No, how else was he supposed to get views?
As someone who had a channel deleted (albeit in a different way), I sympathize. Glad Google had your back and I wish they were as responsive for me (took a week, but at least they restored it).
- It's good to own up to mistakes; others will learn from this
- Perhaps link to the advice you quote in the video and not just a shout out to ThioJoe?
Keep up the good work.
oh yeah i remember you took a loooong time to get your channel back that SUCKED
There should be a club of getting your channel deleted
Jim
yooo jim browning!
Jim!! 😍
As someone in the cybersecurity industry, thanks for being so open about what happened, and bringing awareness to the technical elements involved. It CAN happen to anyone, what really matters is how you react.
Dont pirate tools and redline won't come to meet you :D Who takes advise from this fool anyways, got a team behind him 1000s of pounds of kit and the noob gets cookie jacked hahaha
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@@DJIInLondon damn… cut back on the salt a little bit, my kidneys can’t handle this much.
The jealousy is almost palpable 😂
What do you think of time of day based functions being limited and requiring authorization by 2fa + offline scanned paper laminated qr code with a 7089 digit password? Sure, the cell carrier can be socially manipulated to enable a 2fa vulnerability but you can't hack what is akin to a cold crypto wallet that is offline.
@@DJIInLondon look up Qakbot and Emotet. The attack Linus is describing is very common right now.
I know I’m months late, but good job getting this under control. Good job admitting where you went wrong, and I completely agree that these companies need to offer better security measures. For example, my bank (yes, my BANK) doesn’t even have MFA as an option.
Glad you were able to recover without too much pain or damage.
Tremendous respect for Linus for not only the transparency around what happened, but the strong leadership of saying "this is ultimately on me and not the employee who made the mistake that allowed this to happen." This is what being a responsible boss looks like.
It's just common sense. You have to expect people are idiots (and some phishing can look very realistic depending on the situation). I work in it security and happened to click on phishing link because it really looked like related to some internal processes. Even with awareness you can never be 100% phishing resistant.
@@bencze465 i recently got what i belove was a scam sms from my insurance company, 2 months later i got a call and turned out it was really from then i was way past the paying date
Just how many more times can he fire Colton? :D
I bet a minute After saying this he fired everyone 🤣
Agreed
So glad you are back in action. Excellent response and recovery, and ultimately messaging.
Would love to see the culprit PDF!
Get him to the top so we can see what this pdf was all about.
LMG hack de obfuscation pls
They should send the PDF to some security researchers, if not the community (with a warning that it's live malware, of course). Getting current samples for stuff like this is huge for establishing ways to defend against it or identify it.
J
Would love to see a collaboration!
Just want to say thanks for showing the world that you can not only make mistakes, but own up to them, be transparent about them, not scape-goat them, and _still_ be not only successful as a company, but _thrive._
You sound like great boss, I appreciate how you take accountability for policies.
Good job, sorry you had to go through this.
The dbrand sponsor was savage lol
Soo happy you guys got it figured out.
Shoutout to all who helped, truly.
Ya
Too bad he couldn't read the coupon code correctly 😂
@@nealvaughan6538 I copped as well 😂
First time ever a sponsor actually got my sympathy!
actually went to their site to by something. Realized i fix all my stuff so it is all old and Dbrand got nothing for them.
Got a REALLY good laugh browsing their stuff, i can actually feel it in my lungs. I am going to get something the day i actually have something that works with dbrands stuff
The way you've taken full responsibility and stood by your employee is truly commendable. More employers need to take a leaf out of your book.
Agreed, mine would be throwing tantrums, cursing screaming, and blaming everyone else.
Then why did he mention a name. That was unpleutoo watch. 😡
@@MortenPejterRoitmann Bro 😂. That was clearly a joke, Linus always digs at Colton.
Him also owning that when shit hits the fan it must to upstream instead of down to a poor employee is a top tier move
The whole firing Colton thing is a long term joke from the channel.@@MortenPejterRoitmann
Dang good looking Linus hope you get back up and running w/o too much headache 😮 love your channel!
Lots of youtubers are being hacked as well. I hope youtube does something about all this.
Linus being more or less calm and taking responsibility for his employees' lack of training is refreshing and a sign of a great boss for the long-term. He realized that his org needs more help in training and prevention, and takes ownership that the buck stops with him. Kudos on handling a super stressful situation with naked-grace lol.
If you wanna hear about when Linus went off the deep end, look up the clips from they’re podcast of when they moved his furniture.
It’s nothing bad. Linus is about as wholesome as you can get as a boss
The best company I ever worked for, had a similar thing happen to them.
A phishing scam to accounts and £48,000 lost in minutes.
No repercussions against the employee, apart from their own self imposed trauma, just a re-evaluation of process' to avoid that and similar events from happening.
A good management team learns, a bad one blames.
@@Youchubeswindon But in the case where it is drilled in to employees heads and they still fall in to such a trap, they should definitely be blamed.. most companies do make their employees aware of phishing and similar scams, malicious emails, it's pretty basic stuff. If you're not competent, and they could replace you for someone who is or might be, that's what a successful business needs to do.
@@otallono Big names also have someone, or several someones that deal with nothing but security. Git good applies to more than just video games.
@@otallono I don't think thats a good way to see the situation. If you owns a big company you MUST provide excellence training for everything is important in there. Social Engineering is something really underrated, as phishing and other hacking tools aswell. There are ways to hide malwares even in images, so yes, you need to make sure every of your employees, mainly those who have enought access to cause a problem, knows whats he is doing and to recognize problems when them happen (ie: if Linus' emplyee had noticed the redflag when opening the malicious file, they could act fast and solve the problem in its root)
"Shit rolls uphill"
There are a multitude of reasons you and your team are so successful, but this statement on its own is most certainly one of them. That mentality CANNOT be overstated. Bad stuff inevitably happens to everyone, but good things happening to good people makes it all worth it. Thank you for sharing, Linus.
This isn't a mentality you can teach. Great leaders will always fall on grenades for their team. Even when, objectivity, the team is truly at fault. They never seek blame; they seek resolution.
I can't for Linus' kids to get in trouble at school and they tell him -- "Dad, shit rolls uphill" 😂
@@fredwerza3478 🤣🤣🤣
@@BobSentell 🙌🙌🙌
Yeah, what a great attitude, and attribute for a leadership role!
well glad to see you back , the channel is part of life keep it up and be careful
dang the stuff on dbrand is actually really neat. Gotta get me some of that
Nice to see the channel back up
Really appreciate your honestly and candor here. A huge problem that needs to be fixed.
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@@cold42soy
That will never happen. Google doesn't throw any resources at actually improving TH-cam in important ways.
Indeed
This sounds like someone in Erudite would say.
Thank you for this honest and open discussion about this important issues. I really think this is something that could happen to any of us. Hackers are very aggressive. We all need to be extremely careful online. I try to be very careful about what I install on my computers. You have to even be careful with files that don't seem like they could be dangerous. Word documents can have dangerous scripts hidden in them. Operating systems are not always as secure as they should be. There is so many ways for malware to sneak in.
Hahaha I loved the sponsor's hits at you, made me check them out and I've actually wanted to buy this kind of products, so for you Linus, I'll get a phone case ;D
The most impressive part of this video is the line: "Shit actually rolls up hill" in the organization. So many teams play the blame game of "whose fault" rather than take responsibility and build processes to learn from real mistakes and prevent future ones. Super impressed to hear that.
Employee of an tech channel opened a "presentation.pdf.exe" . My mom is 74 and she doesnt fall for that since 2000.
@@filipen.9522 he stated it was an .pdf and in .pdf there can be scripted macros you dont see.
@@filipen.9522 tell me you’re an easy target without saying you’re an easy target.
my favourite is the companies that say this UNTIL something goes wrong and you find not only does shit roll downhill those downhill get blamed for any thing they can't quantify.
@@filipen.9522 its not an exe file, there are ways to bypass that now. it seems to me you're still living in the 2000 era.
Admitting that it was lack of training and not just the lower tier employees fault speaks worlds about how good of a leader you are. Been a long time subscriber, since the days before the office existed, and it’s been good to see you stay humble and treat employees as equals rather than numbers.
@@minmb82 ROFL
I agree. I've only caught 5-6 videos in total from this channel, and I wasn't subbed before now. But anyone who is in charge of other employees and can acknowledge the true issue and work together with employees to prevent the issue in the future, instead of just firing the employee, has my respect and my sub.
At least you got your channel back. I lost my channel permanently after it got hacked, I think it had a name change too. Ever since that incident I started using Security Keys.
Good on you for owning the mistake and not cascading the blame down. Great leadership right there.
I don't want to blame anyone, however Colton-
DBrand, even in the worst of times, never skipping a beat to sponsor and troll Linus 😂
Go back and listen to him read the promo code
Lets be real, this is a huge story and will be huge PR for dbrand, easiest marketing decision ever made!
How did it all start? 😂
That extra W where it matters.
As a software developer, I really appreciate it when a detailed breakdown is given like this rather than just "my PC got a virus, then my TH-cam was hacked". So to say thanks, and of course for getting the channel back up in such short order, I went ahead and ordered some goodies from dbrand using the affiliate link 😁
aS a SoFtWaRe DeVeLoPeR
This ain't a RCA bro
why is linus naked
You need out-of-band 2FA, BF protection and strict session timeouts. EDR also helps.
Google should add an option on a channel that is streaming. This option would be a function where you can report a channel as hijacked using a unique 2fa token, one time use. This would require a session log in before anything (deleting, streaming, uploading) can be done. This would invalidate any current stream keys, sessions, and log ins.
In this case, it would have allowed LTT to lock down their channels, go back to bed for a bit, and change their passwords and 2FA in the AM without further damage.
OMG I KNEW I WASN'T TRIPPING! ThioJoe really did release that video before this happened, so it was actually just a coincidence! Also, love that he's getting mentioned here, dude's one of my fav TH-camrs nowadays, along with LTT
I feel so bad, imagine waking up to that! Hope you recover from this and glad you got the channel back
Yeah can’t imagine your life’s work all gone overnight…
He recovered no? Seems like all videos are up 🤔
@@CanisoGaming in theory
Honestly, I think it will take him a while to recover from this. Not just because of his 10+ yrs worth of work gone for a day, but also because all unlisted and privated videos are shown for an hour. Enough time for some people to download all of them
@@jimbobcheezeburger2020 no, check his channel. All the videos that were posted before the hack are still there
I like how Linus owned himself by spelling ONE in the code as O W N E
i thought noone else noticed
But you remember the code now, don’t you? 😂
@@pepegaprofessor3324 lol. i said.. w? hahahaha Love you Linus
damn i commented about this when the video came out. 0 likes.
@@lzxty6024luck of the draw
good luck bro👍💪
I remember the EXACT same attack with a not so small german youtuber, julien bam, about 1.5 years ago. It took him about a week to get most of the channel back working, some content never came back as far as I remember. The attack route was the same, the channel was also renamed "Tesla" and the links also got to a site "offering" double pay out "investments".
It's hard to think that youtube or google didn't solve the issues on their side until now.
If they are struggling with this attack, how should a youtube channel owner be aware of this before he got into an attack like this?
Good that you provided this information, with your reach this could help to build up higher awareness about this problem
That was OWNE heck of a story. Thanks LTT and dbrand.
😂 was coming to the comments to see if just owne other person noticed
lol came to comments when i heard W in the spelling of ONE.... but lets give it to the guy... getting Linus back is one big W.
I was wondering about that, too hahaha
@@FroobTubeLIVE ownedering, even?
Came to the comments for this.
Love that Steve reached out to you at 3am to make you aware. Truly a good dude.
That is a TRUE FRIEND !! ❤
Of course it had to be Steve at 3 am, who else is awake and working at this hour!😅
Well to be fair it would've been 6am in NC where Steve is but still not surprised Steve is up doing stuff at that hour
Classic Tech Jesus
Because is always up at night, everyoe would have contacted Linus if they were up rofl
Thank you Annie, Love your content. xx
We have travel velocity set up in our corporate MFA. It usually bites us when T-mobile or ATT suddenly route a person's cell phone traffic through a datacenter many states away from their physical location. When setting up new users, we have the Service Desk add them to Corp wifi before setting up so that their phone and desktop are using the same IP space.
Dbrand is like that friend who constantly teases you but would get in a fight to protect you.
Glad to see the channel is back & thanks for being so transparent
Five foot one 😂
100%
Dbrand would hunt down your stalker for you. Then go back to razzing you once it was done.
They’re brutal savages and it’s hilariously amazing 😂
They got your back... Unless you own an LG phone :(
I m glad you are back mate 💯
that's rough. glad it all worked out.
Can we take a moment and send our condolences to the poor LTT video editor that had to add the blur effect.
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five foot..owne? hmmm
I'm seriously glad that everything turned out to be okay for everyone at LMG. Amazing job everyone in response to this. Looking forward to more content in the future.
You can bet the man has had zero hours of sleep since the incident.
Tired Linus haha
Thank goodness u posted something I was going to he spelt it so wrong
Nice Freudian slip.
i thought i was the only one
Met this guy on lg, so I actually got a couple channels terminated before (with literally no community guideline strikes) because apperently, I was posting "Spam, scams or commerciall deceptive content" even though they were development channels. I seen thousands of them where the show trailers of their stuff. tutorial videos on how to use their stuff (Like what Discord bot developers do) and sometimes if it is a development channel that develops games, they would post gameplay videos or sneak peak videos of their games. Mine was nothing different from those. When I appealed for one of them, they surprisingly accepted the appeal for that channel and also brought back the other channel that was terminated (even though I did not specifically appeal for that channel). At least I am happy TH-cam decided to bring back my falsely terminated channels that was falsely terminated for an invalid reason.
Thank to Jaycalce for the help, I was able to get my account back successfully.
Imagine losing your whole channel, and within 24 hours you have a professionally scripted, shot, and edited video, detailing the whole thing, full with sponsor and additional topic notes. Congratulations on getting the channel back up and running so swiftly.
I wish everyone involved a very nice long nap and weekend, and a very satisfactory salary. Good job!
Looking forward to the WAN show!
Yep very SCRIPTED.
@@2021videowatcher2021 yeah it was scripted last second
It was already filmed, he just waited for the hack to happen :))
The fact he got hacked didn't even leave reddit's front page and Linus had already had the video up.
Not that hard when you have dozens of employees and over 10 million subs giving you unfettered access to TH-cam support. Ask anyone with around 10k subs what it's like, and they'll tell you they're lucky if they get access back within 2 weeks. For many creators that size, the damage done with the unauthorized scam streams and the inability to post/communicate on their channel is more than enough to kill whatever momentum that channel may have had and effectively kill their channel. LTT on the other hand will actually make money off and exposure off this situation.
1:56 I remember all the videos were deleted at that time , but all the recent videos of that time I saved in my WATCH LATER were playing fine....
Mad respect to Dbrand here and the team as well!
so pleased everything is okay.
Mhm
There goes our hope to watch unlisted videos
@@Computment Don't worry People probably downloaded them.
Fire Colton
same
Thank you for turning a terrifying event into an educational video! I am glad that everything worked out and this community's response was just as incredible 🎉
Hi.
"It's all Content Baby" Linus Sebastian
Sad that 10 yrs after this has happened to channels before TH-cams customer service and urgent reaction is still crap.
been here from the start glad you got it all abck
Mad props to Dbrand, not afraid to troll a guy when he's down. 😂
Their website is hilarious. I literally have no use for any of their products, but would buy if they had something.
Edit: grammar
....." f-i-v-e-f-o-o-t-o-w-n-e" -linus
Their marketing finally got to me. Fivefootone got me the deal on some joycon wraps.
Huge respect for taking accountability and pledging to train newcomers instead of blaming them and taking disciplinary action. LTT seems like a great place to work - keep it up, very mature leadership :)
Get the whole channel and subchannels hacked: i sleep
Scratch my floor: REAL SHIT!
Ehhh pros and cons
punishment is cybersecurity training at 3am with nude linus
OMG ur Heart must have been Racing at that moment running down them stairs
I really feel for you, as someone that had to play "Log in whac a mole" with a IP address logging into all my accounts from RUSSIA a few years ago it is truly devastating. I was never concerned with online security until I got hacked and all my accounts even a roblox account I forgot about was stolen from me in a matter of minutes. I was at the store getting groceries then all of a sudden I got new login notifications from all my gmails. Now I have 2 factor on everything. Not after playing log in whac a mole with a ip address from russia for 3 days straight .
The fact that they even cram out a video about this on the same day. Mad respect.
Kinda suspicious almost
@@ModishShrink get laid
i'm more impressed at Dbrands level of spine to even do this. KEKW XD
Might as well channel all that residual adrenaline into a short PSA. Still, that's an impressive turnaround time considering all the scripting and editing that went into this.
Never underestimate a man who's *P I S S E D.*
In a healthy organization, sh!t actually rolls up the hill, rather than down. Beautifully said, Mr. Linus
I've never had a job where shit didn't roll downhill, I think shit only rolls uphill in tech because the people are smart enough to own responsibility. In Healthcare it is all about liability which leads to fingerpointing and the people at the bottom take the blame for failure even when there is poor management and lack of training
Already one of my favorites, respect grew immeasurably by owning up and taking responsibility.
@@elijahdungan3612 Haha, that's a very interesting take on the healthcare industry. That means the only ones who rise to the top are the ones who manage to keep themselves clean. Ofc, nobody is perfect, so who did they blackmail to get where they are? amiright?
@@davidsauve7794 absolutely.
@@elijahdungan3612 nah, I've seen plenty of healthcare organizations that own their shit at every level. It's not just tech.
😂😂😂 shorty lmao, I am glad you were able to get your account back. Love your channel
This reminds me of the day our trainer at a previous job, who went through several times about not opening links to things, ended up sending a malicious site to the entire organization because he was so integrated with the entire company and had contacts at every level. Yes - he opened the link! After telling us all about how dangerous they are, he did it. Now - he did it because someone well above him sent HIM the link through the same connections, and he thought it was work related, but ... there you have it. One link in the chain causes the entire chain to fail. The best your security can be is the worst point in your security.
Be careful out there, folks... they ARE out to get you!
And Linus - Glad to see your content back up... still need to see if the saved links are still good, but as I wasn't active when this all went down, I don't see why they wouldn't be. Give poor Colton a root beer. (No alcohol on the job.)
I feel sorry for what the editor had to see to blur everything.
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if that was me id personally blur the video, export it, then and only then give it to the editors lol
I’m sure Linus or Yvonne did it because I’m sure one of them had to dig up and clip the home security footage
Wishing I was an editor rn
Mad props for Steve for alerting Linus and to the guys sending superchats to viewers!
OF COURSE at 3am it was Steve the one woke up and doing stuff to notice... 😂
Tech Jesus saves!
I find it extremely in-character for Steve to both be a total bro and not be sleeping at 3am
The superchat messages were so nice!
Tech jesus doing tech miracles yet again!
Love you view on Sh*t rolling up hill man, that's some gold standard ceo behaviour right there!
Thanks for the video, good info to know!
Yep… just had this happen to my main channel, and now I’m praying Google will actually be willing to help me recover everything. I’m hoping 15K subs and monetization is enough to get them to take this seriously. I’m so heartbroken right now.
As someone who works at a company that was recently hit with a major cyber attack, I have some gut churning empathy for you and your team
cybersecurity is becoming a growing problem
@@ran160 It's a matter of "when", and not "if" nowadays.
I have empathy but I also have more empathy for the sole sysadmin they hired only in January, someone who probably has been pulling their hair out trying to improve security in an organization full of people who are usually the most dangerous, the tech nerds :P
@@ran160 It gets will get worse now that AI is developing at this rate
@@Redhawk_CS Yes, everyone needs to treat security as they would a fire drill, and practice what to do when it happens. The most obnoxious part about security is most of us have at least 50 accounts that all work completely differently and have unique security policies/changes in place. Security is in nowise standardized so what you might do for a Google account can be completely different from say a Microsoft account, or some random other website that implements their own security practices. This makes training for it hard, when you essentially have to have several if not hundreds of different types of accounts that work differently from each other. Perhaps its going overboard to expect individuals to do this for every personal account, but at the very least we should be practicing this with the accounts we use for our businesses and livelihoods.
Ah yes, O-W-N-E = ONE.
Glad that your channels are fine. I didn't hear about it until now but it's great to know that the LMG crew still has channels to create awesome content to (:
he is probably super tired honestly
It's cause they got... owne-d.
@@IvanHaboic imagine if that was dbrand promo for this video
@@IvanHaboic damn, you beat me to it
Now Dbrand is gonna make fun of Linus for not being able to spell O N E correctly 😂
(Use code ‘LINUSCANTSPELLONE’ / ‘LINUSOWNE’)
As you said, hindsight is 20/20, and I wouldn't be surprised if you started having your teams open any docs in VMs first.
I like how you are dealing with this! The employee made an honest mistake
Thank you for addressing the issue of smaller channels not getting the help they deserve from TH-cam
Exactly this, I know of two that suffered the same fate, from the same vector of attack, but only restored their channels because of others in the TH-cam partnership program
Unpopular opinion: What is TH-cam supposed to do? There have to be like two billion accounts on here. Are they going to hire 100 million account managers?
@@yrobtsvt They dont need to hire account managers.
Just revert that account to a previous state, invalidate the session token by forcing all devices to log out and change the password.
@@yrobtsvt Or come up with an actual ticket system so people can at least get their problems looked at eventually rather than relying on friends and Twitter? Or some better security features?
You're talking like it's unreasonable they would have to actually help their users just because of their size. Even the biggest corporations in the world have customer service lines where you can call and get help eventually.
@@Toastybees To point out how it's entirely possible to implement something like this, Steam support used to take IIRC about a week to get back to you. I remember because my account got locked in 2010. But once they did they were very prompt about helping me. Was it really annoying it took so long? Of course, but it's far better than nothing, which is what TH-cam creators seem to typically get. And if a smaller company like Valve can offer such customer service (they're actually far more prompt now days), then a monstrously huge company like Google has no excuse.
It makes me really have some respect for Linus that not only did he not blame that employee, he said there would be no punishment or reprimand. What a class act
I was literally just about to comment exactly this lmao it’s so true
@TehPh1L yeah, this shit is affecting both big and small TH-camrs with seemingly no problem.
Well a quarter of their content is about how they sc**up and how they fix it. But this is a new scale.
They should give them a raise for the extra content.
yeah man having worked in SRE it's a process issue not an individual. You learn nothing just through apportioning blame.
When I saw your channel hacked I was so scared it was gone forever, so glad it's back.
i can just imagine how stressful and shocking that night for linus was. the whole night till they fully got their channel back pretty much had to be just like walking through the fire of hell. imagine looking your creation getting deleted like that. maybe they had back up safely somewhere but if they didnt im pretty sure now they do. like every youtube channel they own should be fully 100 perc backed up to offline copy, at least once a week or month. ofc even such type of data privacy security can still be breakable and endangered with leakage and possibility of whole disk deletion.
I'm most impressed by your willingness to turn this into a teaching moment for that employee rather than pursuing disciplinary action. It really says a lot about the work culture you've been able to build at LMG.
TH-cam needs to be taught a lesson about hiring scammers/hackers
@@carsnob youtube didnt hire hackers/scammers tho?? what are you talking about?
Oh that employee is getting disciplined or fired. Don't think that's not happening.
@@RamonathoWhy, its a honest mistake that the employee made.
@@Ramonatho as they probably should be yaya
Man you can feel Linus still hasn't fully recovered from this.
I am so happy to see you back. Your channels are just great and I appreciate your work.
His family weren’t taken hostage - Jesus Christ you fucking nerds make stuff like this seem like the apocalypse. You gonna say he got PTSD from it next?
It literally happened 15hrs ago of course he’s not fully recovered
You just feel this pain from the very beginning and man does it not feel good at all. His eyes tell the whole story
I had no clue any of those problems could occur!!!!
Learned this from my work. Most of the time its emails or texts that look like they are safe and from a trusted source
I think Linus deciding not to blame the new members of his team really shows how understanding he is
I think he would be a fucking terrible boss.
@@Theharrizable "fucking" wow really emphasised that didn't you...
@@Theharrizable Linus is probably a great boss but no one is perfect so I'm sure he has his short comings and as with every leader there's always something to talk about
he should've grew balls and fired someone
@@mrangles3402 hah, short comings
Publicly stating that, no matter what who or why, sh*t rolls uphill and taking that responsibility is an impressive thing and just adds to the respect you have as a boss. Kudos.
Not just as a boss - but as a business owner, as a content creator, and so on. That willingness to take ownership, and ask "what could I do, to improve the situation" is such a good attitude for becoming successful.
Very respectable
@@formes2388 Absolutely right. Every part of the success is thoroughly deserved and becomes more so as time goes on.
Downhill buddy 😂
@@Lynn-mc9zk Ummm, nope.
We are with you!!!!