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Lemmy.world Site Redirects and More Removed (self.lemmyworld)

submitted 1 year ago by MichelleG to c/lemmyworld

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We know an issue occurred on the site over an hour ago with someone using my account to redirect the site, make fake posts, and change other settings. The problem has been corrected.

We will continue to monitor the situation and keep you informed.

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[–] Madbrad200 78 points 1 year ago (15 children)

how did this happen
what steps are being taken to ensure it doesn't happen again
was any personal data compromised for users?

[+] klyde -8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What personal data did you give Lemmy? Lol. And if you're going to question lemmy.world then head over to every other instance and take your stance there too.

[–] Madbrad200 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't use other instances, I use lemmy.world. Questioning why and how a major instance got hacked isn't an outlandish line of questioning; I need to know whether this will continue to be a safe, reliable, and secure instance to use otherwise I and presumably others will go elsewhere. This was relatively minor in the grand scheme of things, so hopefully it'll be enough to prompt a fix for whatever caused it (seems like it was possibly insecure code not correctly sanitising HTML).

[–] trouser_mouse 1 points 1 year ago

You're absolutely spot on, it will be important to hear what happened and how and why. If an admin account was compromised, that's not a good reflection on the security and related practices of this instance.

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