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FYI!!! In case you start getting re-directed to porn sites.

Maybe the admin got hacked?


edit: lemmy.blahaj.zone has also been hacked. beehaw.org is also down, possibly intentionally by their admins until the issue is fixed.

Post discussing the point of vulnerability: https://lemmy.ml/post/1896249

Github Issue created here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1895

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How did it happen and what does this mean for me as a user of lemmy.ml who also follows people on lemmy.world?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Not a whole lot - you might see some spam being federated from lemmy.world but I'd expect the lemmy.ml and lemmy.world admins will fix it, and them clean it up.

That's probably good stress test to figure out how to handle that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

One of the admin accounts appears to have been compromised. The owner/other admins appear to be aware now because that account had its admin access revoked and offending posts are being removed.

Definitely opens up a big question about the security of Lemmy instances that I am sure will be discussed over the next few days.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Definitely opens up a big question about the security of Lemmy instances that I am sure will be discussed over the next few days.

They added 2FA login to lemmy in one of the newer updates. Probably pretty pertinent for any admins to use it....

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Also I believe this was achieved through cookie stealing, which 2FA would not have helped

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It’s buggy and missing some key checks to make sure it’s working when you set it up.

Real risk of locking yourself out of your account.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

oh, really? maybe i'll turn mine off then.....Thanks for the heads up!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mostly a risk on initial setup.

I’ve been waiting a bit for it to stabilize and just using huge random passwords

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you're using a password manager you'd be doing this for every site and without even having to think about it. Bitwarden is a great choice.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh I do. Used Bitwarden for many years.

I actually use keepass for totp codes too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Too bad it doesn't work with several 2FA apps and right now....

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't assume reasons why or that it's fixed until that consensus has been more widely reached.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

They really need to improve their 2fa implementation