Linus Tech Tips

Linus Tech Tips was hacked earlier today, with channel names and branding messed up, and video promoting crypto scams published. Affected LTT channels are ...

The Bitcoin giveaway scam appeared to be phishing for people to reveal their crypto wallet details, reassured by a big brand like LTT and Tesla. After publishing some scam videos and streams, control of the account was regained by the rightful owners, only to fall again to the hackers. [Linus Tech Tips](https://www.youtube.com/linustechtips) has been hacked and is unavailable at the time of publishing.

The channel featured an Elon Musk cypto ad before it went dark.

[an advertising platform](https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/3/23193668/british-army-youtube-twitter-accounts-hacked-promote-crypto-scam-fraud) for cryptocurrency. [Save all week longDiscover Samsung Event Week-Long Deals](https://events.release.narrativ.com/api/v0/client_redirect/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.samsung.com%2Fus%2F%3Fnrtv_cid%3D.nrtv_plchldr.%26cid%3Dopmc-ecomm-nrtiv-PC-042720-142005-theinventory-16882677%26utm_source%3Dtheinventory%26utm_medium%3Dnarrativ%26utm_campaign%3D16882677%26utm_content%3DPC%26nrtv_as_src%3D1&a=1803165999824740673&uuid=8eb737ff-3a3e-4ade-b99e-1c0aa90f781b&uid_bam=1776733735329660107&ar=1803166491405047855) [The Verge](https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/23/23653115/linus-tech-tips-youtube-hack-crypto-scam), the hacker accessed Linus Sebastian’s account earlier this morning. [15 million followers](https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/23/23653115/linus-tech-tips-youtube-hack-crypto-scam) on the platform. Kotaku reached out to YouTube to ask if they had delisted the account and what safety measures they provide creators to safeguard their accounts but did not receive a response as of publication time. Some private videos on the channel were made public, though it’s [ambiguous](https://gizmodo.com/linus-tech-tips-youtube-elon-musk-crypto-hacker-1850256438) whether this was done by YouTube staff or the scammer themselves.

The channel with 15 million subscribers was live streaming Elon Musk-themed videos, one of which was a crypto scam.

And you can always see the most recent Gizmodo news stories at [gizmodo.com/latest](https://gizmodo.com/latest). Regardless, [youtube.com/user/linustechtips](https://www.youtube.com/user/linustechtips) has now seemingly been scrubbed from YouTube completely. This article is part of a developing story. Channels belonging to The hacked profile was originally live streaming at least videos featuring a thumbnail with Elon Musk. Famed YouTube channel Linus Tech Tips has been hacked and destroyed.

Scammers renamed popular YouTube channels as "Tesla" in a crypto phishing attempt.

[Linus Tech Tips channel](https://www.carscoops.com/2022/08/ignore-the-amazon-reviews-all-dashcams-are-virtually-the-same/) featured Elon Musk discussing cryptocurrency with Jack Dorsey, the founder of Twitter. It appears two identical streams were broadcast, with a malicious “Crypto Giveaway” offer promised, which would likely have been a phishing attempt for crypto wallet details. YouTube and Google appear to have been battling against such bad actors for a while, with multiple channels being hacked to promote misleading scams to millions of users. [](https://www.carscoops.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/hgjkghjghjhgj.jpg) [](https://www.carscoops.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/23e32.jpg) Linus Tech Tips and its associated channels focus on examining computer hardware upgrades, gaming, and even dabbled in the odd car review. Meanwhile, other LMG channels, including Techquickie and TechLinked, had been breached and renamed with a focus on the automaker Tesla.

Amidst a market full of shills, the world of cryptocurrency has seen a recent uptick in crypto scams as the concept of decentralized digital currency still ...

Although Linus Media Group has not officially responded to the hack, a [cryptocurrency](https://hypebeast.com/tags/cryptocurrency) has seen a recent uptick in crypto scams as the concept of decentralized digital currency still remains new to many. The scammers ran several livestreams centered around Elon Musk and Bitcoin, while making private videos public and deleting a vast amount of popular videos on the channel.

The popular YouTube channel Linus Tech Tips has been hacked, with live streams of crypto scam videos being uploaded by attackers.

The scam videos uploaded cannot be accessed currently, suggesting that YouTube has worked to stop the hackers in their tracks. Attempts to search for the channel result in a YouTube 404 error page. In the British Army channel hack, cryptocurrency scams were once again promoted by malicious actors. It also seems that the malicious actors responsible for the hack have uploaded de-listed Linus Tech Tips videos. Along with the main channel, two other Linus Media Group channels, TechLinked and Techquickie, were hacked. The uploaded videos feature Elon Musk, Tesla and SpaceX CEO, discussing cryptocurrency with the founder of Twitter, Jack Dorsey.

YouTube star Linus Tech Tips has explained how his YouTube channels managed to get hacked and deleted, without the hackers going after his passwords.

Giving them effectively an exact copy of those browsers on the target machine that they could export including, that’s right, session tokens for every logged-in website.” It was an innocent enough mistake for the most part. “Someone on our team downloaded what appeared to be a sponsorship offer from a potential partner.

The Linus Tech Tips YouTube channel, along with several related channels, have been restored after being hijacked by crypto scammers.

The main Linus Tech Tips YouTube channel retained its logo and badge, but the other smaller channels had their logo changed to a Tesla logo. YouTube has seen an uptick in hackings from crypto scammers over the past year, and the company has yet to implement any features to mitigate the problem. LMG isn’t the first to experience this type of hack. Some of the artists include Kendrick Lamar and Drake. After all three channels were brought back, the main Linus Tech Tips channel released a video explaining what happened. The main Linus Tech Tip YouTube channel, which has amassed over 15 million subscribers, went offline on Thursday, as did the TechQuickie and TechLinked channels.