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It seems like lemmy.world is completely down following the breach. (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I hope they can bring the site back up soon and that it is not gone forever.

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

This is the conversation I'm referring to:

https://i.imgur.com/uqW3P8o.png

It may well be that the lemmy.world admin account was compromised as a result of the hack, rather than to make it happen.

Apparently Memmy is immune to this, not sure about other apps. Someone else advised staying loggged out, and maybe be prepared to change your password after it's resolved.

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

Looks like it could be some kind of markdown parser injection, where they manage to forcefully close the HTML src property and enter their own

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

Thanks for the explanation.

I've already made the decision earlier to change my passwords (on all my accounts on different instances) after this has been resolved.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

FWIW, right now it seems unlikely that your password was accessible to anyone. Your login cookie may have been taken if you accessed Lemmy on a web browser (apps are likely fine), so you would want to clear your Lemmy cookies and cache once this is over.

But I'm speculating, and changing your password will definitely help!

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

Thanks!

Fighting the urge to clear my cookies and cache right now, lol!