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LTT YouTube channel has been compromised, account suspended

by rmonvfer on 3/23/23, 2:34 PM with 17 comments

  • by noodlesUK on 3/23/23, 3:49 PM

    I’m curious if LTT had Advanced Protection turned on, which would have required hardware 2fa.

    It seems like this is either likely a phish or an insider threat. I’m looking forward to the post-mortem.

  • by BeefWellington on 3/23/23, 2:51 PM

    I look forward to the breakdown of what happened. A lot of content to be made out of the post-mortem of something like this.

  • by jacooper on 3/23/23, 4:38 PM

    Imagine being so big, that the verge writes a whole article about your channel getting hacked.

  • by mgdlbp on 3/23/23, 8:16 PM

    It's absurd for the channel to be permanently banned, and all its videos deleted, over this, right?

    We know it's absurd because it won't happen. But there's two issues at hand. Setting aside that of customer support via profit motive and public scrutiny, banning does not imply deleting. So from where comes YouTube's eagerness to delete videos, the source of all value in the service? Where did the practice of even start?

    Is it a distinction of forums and wikis (where user contributions enter the commons) from blogs and and social networking (where users "own" the "content" on their pages)? Then it's misfortunate that this is what should remain of YouTube's rise to its monopoly on video hosting.

    (Of course, the opposite situation is also a factor: banned accounts that cannot be deleted)

  • by detaro on 3/23/23, 2:56 PM