YouTube channel hacks for crypto scams keep happening, takes down Linus Tech Tips

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2023-03-24 07:30:16

Over the past few years, it’s become very common for YouTube channels small and large to fall victim to hacks that end up taking over the channel with crypto scams. Today, that practice has hit one of YouTube’s most popular channels, Linus Tech Tips.

With an audience of over 15 million subscribers and several other channels in the Linus Media Group, Linus Tech Tips is one of the biggest channels on YouTube, especially in the tech space.

Overnight, the channel suddenly changed, with subscribers noticing that some older re-uploaded videos or videos that were meant to be private were appearing in their feeds, before the channel was renamed “Tesla” and started showing livestreams regarding Elon Musk and Bitcoin. These videos often bait users into sending crypto or revealing their wallet details. By this morning, the channel had been disabled entirely, taking down both the crypto scams but also the channel’s content.

The hack also hit two of Linus Media Group’s other channels, Techquickie (a channel focused on short explanations) and TechLinked (a news channel).