Lagacy's youtube hacked?

His channel is premiering something on bitcoin...

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I can’t find his channel ?
Presumably deleted by the scammer. He's in communication with Youtube support based on what has been said. Hopefully he recovers his account
A scamer wouldn’t delete it YouTube would because a lot going on to report it.
could youtube reverse this later? would lags have to start off on a new channel?

There should be able to

klobberintyme

So, quick PSA: data breaches happen on a systemic level more frequently than the click-a-link-and-allow-hacker-to-pilot-your-desktop level. If you're using your primary gmail account to, say, access this forum/game and your password is the same everywhere, let's just say you should rethink that immediately.

Systemic data breaches that yield treasure troves of login/password/address/etc. typically aren't discovered until months/years later, and it takes a while for someone going through this pile to identify what's potentially useful or naw. When they do, though, it's not fun for the victim.

In short, decentralize online accounts as much as possible, never reuse passwords, change them frequently or use an autogenerator.

As for Lagacy, losing a channel to hacking/DMCA/etc. is a cost of doing business. Just remember the content is what makes the channel, not the domain, so it's a pain but it happens, and you rebuild and move on if need be. The painful part will be wrangling monetization going forward, but let's hope for the best.

BigBlueOx

Worth mass reporting? I feel like someone is bound to trust the 100k subs and fall for the scam.

Definitely. I don’t actively follow Lags, but I think it’s worth my time to file a few reports for a fellow member of the community.

Bugmat78

I filed a report also so hopefully it helps along with whatever he is doing to get back control

EdisonLaw

Fingers crossed his channel gets restored soon, I am concerned. Let’s all give support to our favourite Canadian content creator

Mikes_mom

The video the hackers are pushing on Lags account are all from an account called
"MicroStrategy".

Clicking on one of the promoted videos and reading the comments and from what I've seen it shows MicroStrategy is not the original name of the account and it was first a geometry dash channel called Nexus before Nexus got hacked.

Who hacked the original Nexus account and turned it into a bitcoin account? Not sure but a comment said it was orchestrated by the king of Yemen, again don't know if that's true so take that with a grain of salt.

Those comments are about 8months old so if they're the same hackers it's very possible Lags won't be able to recover his account given how Nexus got overrun and hasn't been able to recover theirs (although idk if they tried as hard as Lags is)

Very unfortunate situation and I'm sadly not surprised it's crypto people doing it, they're some of the jammiest people on the internet

Is Yemen a monarchy?

SlayerOfGods

Posting these here since not everyone here is on Twitter

DNA3000

So how he got hacked?
Clicked on some links?
Or he just went to sleep and woke up to this?

probably clicked on some link.

who knows maybe he was down bad ( jokes )

but fr, I think he’s active on discord. I once got hacked on discord very easily. I was not happy.
How it's even possible that a single touch turns into this big disaster.
A click shouldn't give away whole password and gmail accounts,
Google need to encrypt more.
You would think two factor authentication would be the safety mechanism to stop such things… (assuming it was in use). If one click is bypassing that, that’s certainly troubling

Two factor authentication does not completely insulate someone from this sort of hack. It is essential in this day and age to prevent a wide range of attacks, however, the problem is 2FA only prevents someone else from logging into your account. It doesn't prevent you from logging into your account and if you are logged into your account when an attack occurs, the attack doesn't need to log into your account: you've done it already.

Typically, the way these kinds of attacks work is by using the fact that you're logged in, and send some form of phishing or other attack designed to add an authentication option to your account while you are still logged into it. Or it will ask you to log in pretending to be a valid authentication request. Then the attacker can quickly use that alternate authentication option to lock you out, leaving only their options remaining.

Everyone should use 2FA, especially on things like their primary email account system (because it is a very juicy target) and any commerce or other logistically important systems (for example, systems you use to gain access to other systems). But never assume 2FA will protect you from everything. It will not protect you from yourself making a mistake. You still have to be very careful when you yourself do things, especially when prompted by any outside communication.

Also: never trust where anything comes from. All senders can be forged. Email, text message, everything can look like it is coming from a trusted source. Treat all sender information like it is the handwritten return address on an envelope send through the post office. Anyone can write anything there. If it is unsolicited, if you are not directly expecting it, if it is not authenticated in some way, don't do anything. Check via some completely out of band channel if the request was valid. Presume all unauthenticated communications might be dangerous.

BringPopcorn

Lagacy should get paid on any traction of views and stuff like that generated by the hacker IMO

kvirr

Lagacy should get paid on any traction of views and stuff like that generated by the hacker IMO

fr, had like 400k live viewers at one point

EdisonLaw

Lagacy should get paid on any traction of views and stuff like that generated by the hacker IMO
fr, had like 400k live viewers at one point

They were probably all bots

Rayven5220

Posting these here since not everyone here is on Twitter

Appreciate the update, Slayer!
I'm one of the guys not on Twitter so I had no idea what was going on. Haha

EdisonLaw

Day 2 and Lagacy’s channel is still gone

Gamer

Day 2 and Lagacy’s channel is still gone

All works at different times and has to make sure that’s hes acc is safe and not unsafe

peixemacaco

Hope he recover his Channel

Best Mcoc Youtubers are RichtheMan, Lagacy, MSD, Brian Grant and Prof. Hoff

kvirr

he’s back guys, his channel is back up in his name

MrSakuragi

he’s back guys, his channel is back up in his name

Hope the views from crypto videos make him a few dollars for the inconvenience

EdisonLaw

Hope he recover his Channel

Best Mcoc Youtubers are RichtheMan, Lagacy, MSD, Brian Grant and Prof. Hoff

Seatin, Vega, @Karatemike415 , Nagase as well

kvirr

well guys he just went live…

but it isn’t him, it’s spacex..?

His channel I guess got reenabled under his name, but he’s not the one live…I’m so lost

Bugmat78

he’s back guys, his channel is back up in his name

Just check and it's now running Space X vids.

EdisonLaw

he’s back guys, his channel is back up in his name
Just check and it's now running Space X vids.

LagSpace program?

ShuGokis

This is actually Pathetic from youtube. They disable it to help lags get back in control only to then give it straight back to the hackers.

EdisonLaw

This is actually Pathetic from youtube. They disable it to help lags get back in control only to then give it straight back to the hackers.

Unless the hackers know his personal account information

CandyCane2

This is actually Pathetic from youtube. They disable it to help lags get back in control only to then give it straight back to the hackers.

Sometimes, life isn’t fair.

ShuGokis

Hulk808

Guy that hacked his account is probably a huge Silk fan

EdisonLaw

Guy that hacked his account is probably a huge Silk fan

I don't think Lagacy hates Silk, she just thinks she's overrated (which I disagree with). But to hate a champ is not the same as overrating a champ

CandyCane2

Guy that hacked his account is probably a huge Silk fan
I don't think Lagacy hates Silk, she just thinks she's overrated (which I disagree with). But to hate a champ is not the same as overrating a champ

Lagacy is a She? Mind blowing news 😱

ShuGokis

Don't know if this was done on his request i assume so but this is the latest.

CandyCane2

Don't know if this was done on his request i assume so but this is the latest.

Thank you for updating us. Keep doing so.