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Another day and another giant YouTube channel hacked.

It feels like barely a week goes by without a prominent YouTube channel getting hacked to promote crypto scams. This time it’s Linus Tech Tips, one of the biggest tech YouTube accounts — with 15.3 million subscribers. The channel has been taken over by scammers live streaming crypto scam videos. These breaches have been happening for well over a year, and it’s beyond time YouTube helped protect creators from falling victims to this.

The Linus Tech Tips channel has been taken over by scammers.
The Linus Tech Tips channel has been taken over by scammers.
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