{"id":26737,"date":"2023-03-23T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/popular-youtube-channel-linus-tech-tips-pulled-after-scammer-hack\/"},"modified":"2023-03-23T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T17:30:00","slug":"popular-youtube-channel-linus-tech-tips-pulled-after-scammer-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/popular-youtube-channel-linus-tech-tips-pulled-after-scammer-hack\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular YouTube Channel Linus Tech Tips Pulled After Scammer Hack"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Linus Tech Tips is one of YouTube\u2019s most popular content creators for tech hardware, with over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/3\/23\/23653115\/linus-tech-tips-youtube-hack-crypto-scam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">15 million followers<\/a> on the platform. That changed very quickly after the account was hacked by crypto scammers who used it to run Bitcoin ads. The account has now been \u201cterminated,\u201d according to an error page on individual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JXhT13oZchA&amp;t=1032s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/linus-tech-tips-elon-musk-hardware-youtube-crypto-scam-1850257599\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source &#8211; kotaku.com<\/p>\n<p>All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linus Tech Tips is one of YouTube\u2019s most popular content creators for tech hardware, with over 15 million followers on the platform. That changed very quickly after the account was hacked by crypto scammers who used it to run Bitcoin ads. The account has now been \u201cterminated,\u201d according to an error page on individual \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26738,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,31],"tags":[7447,512,6139],"class_list":["post-26737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pc","category-popular","tag-linus","tag-tech","tag-tips"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Popular YouTube Channel Linus Tech Tips Pulled After Scammer Hack | Xtreme Servers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"View Popular YouTube Channel Linus Tech Tips Pulled After Scammer Hack for free, here on XtremeServers. Discover more great articles on our site. 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