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

Update: this server should hopefully (unless something else shows up) be safe and not vulnerable anymore.

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

Thank you for following up!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

We're all being hacked the moment we signed up for this instance. The owner is a notorious hacker wanted by the FBI, CIA, KGB, Sesame Street, and Megatron. Imagine using an Ubuntu server for an Arch instance! The nerve!

Jk.

I hope not, tbh. I do hope instance owners and admins have a Matrix/Discord group where they can communicate in real time with each other. I haven't seen any of the comments that allegedly contain the exploit locally. Hopefully the ones in charge update us. :)

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

We do communicate privately, don't worry. Been a busy day at work for me till now so I only seen whats going on exactly now (there were just some reports of lemmy.world being hacked when I woke up this morning and nothing more). I just sent the server owner a link as to how to resolve the situation so hopefully its all resolved soon.

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

Thank you. We do appreciate the stuff you guys do behind the scenes. But I have no life so I'm often on lemmy and might see stuff you guys might miss. 😂

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

Yea, for me it depends a lot on the day how much time I spend here. Some days hours some days 0, so I might miss some stuff but hopefully the other 2 catch them or someone reports it to us.

Sören (he is the one that actually owns it) just replied to me, so should be sorted very soon. I guess one of us will update once its done (or you might notice the server going down for a restart).

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

The site is only vulnerable if you used custom emoji's for this instance of lemmy. Otherwise you can ignore this.

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

We were using them. It should be resolved now however.

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

To be honest I think we are too small to be a target

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

That was my first reaction, too. That's an upside to being a small instance. Can't let our guard down, though.

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