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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/4675123

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/4675085

U.S. Investigating Veterans Nursing Homes in New Jersey for Possibly Understating Covid Deaths https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-investigating-veterans-nursing-homes-in-new-jersey-for-possibly-understating-covid-deaths-11603900994 The U.S. Department of Justice has opened a civil-rights investigation into New Jersey veterans homes’ handling of deadly coronavirus outbreaks earlier this year, according to a letter from the department to the state’s governor, Phil Murphy.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/4675085

U.S. Investigating Veterans Nursing Homes in New Jersey for Possibly Understating Covid Deaths https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-investigating-veterans-nursing-homes-in-new-jersey-for-possibly-understating-covid-deaths-11603900994 The U.S. Department of Justice has opened a civil-rights investigation into New Jersey veterans homes’ handling of deadly coronavirus outbreaks earlier this year, according to a letter from the department to the state’s governor, Phil Murphy.

U.S. Investigating Veterans Nursing Homes in New Jersey for Possibly Understating Covid Deaths https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-investigating-veterans-nursing-homes-in-new-jersey-for-possibly-understating-covid-deaths-11603900994 The U.S. Department of Justice has opened a civil-rights investigation into New Jersey veterans homes’ handling of deadly coronavirus outbreaks earlier this year, according to a letter from the department to the state’s governor, Phil Murphy.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1495501

Idea: if you mod a community on a lemmy.somewhere you should be able to migrate it to lemmy.elsewhere which would include all post & comment links being forwarded and subbed users having their subscription updated to reflect the new location.

I'm aware this would be a way down the road as user account migration alone is still not great but it would be a great feature for the fediverse to have to avoid centralisation and mod/server admin wars.

cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/politics/t/172468

A major candidate for president is receiving money from a sportswashing venture for Saudi Arabia, ignoring the human rights abuses behind it.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1290412

While I was asleep, apparently the site was hacked. Luckily, (big) part of the lemmy.world team is in US, and some early birds in EU also helped mitigate this.

As I am told, this was the issue:

• There is an vulnerability which was exploited
• Several people had their JWT cookies leaked, including at least one admin
• Attackers started changing site settings and posting fake announcements etc

Our mitigations:

• We removed the vulnerability
• Deleted all comments and private messages that contained the exploit
• Rotated JWT secret which invalidated all existing cookies

The vulnerability will be fixed by the Lemmy devs.

Details of the vulnerability are here

Many thanks for all that helped, and sorry for any inconvenience caused!

Update While we believe the admins accounts were what they were after, it could be that other users accounts were compromised. Your cookie could have been 'stolen' and the hacker could have had access to your account, creating posts and comments under your name, and accessing/changing your settings (which shows your e-mail).

For this, you would have had to be using lemmy.world at that time, and load a page that had the vulnerability in it.

Listen for yourself. CNN obtained the recording mentioned in the Trump indictment: