This is so sad lmao rip. With any site growing as fast as these instances (because of the Reddit folk) Ig these attacks are to be expected. Hope everyone's accounts and personal info are okay

Interesting.

Attackers started changing site settings and posting fake announcements etc

So at least that wasn't 100% malicious, otherwise they could've kept the vuln hidden and just collect data and whatnot.

On the other hand, who cared enough about Lemmy to hack it? Weird.

I can't log into my account anymore, this one is a new one I've just made. I tried to reset my password but nothing came in the mailbox. I can still see comments and posts from that account though.

It's this one:

And I don't know why but I can't save the profile pic for this account.

Edit: Nvm, I use another email to sign up for Lemmy and forgot about it

Must have been jealous spez

As someone in EU I didn't even realized there was an issue. Well done and great reaction time! Also thank you for the transparency 👑

With the JWT secret rotation, shouldn't everyone be forced to re-login? I'm posting with my existing session without any changes.

If I'm not from lemmy.world and visited a lemmy.world community via my home instance, does the hacker gain access to my account?

If I, while logged in to my home instance, accessed lemmy.world in another tab, does the hacker gain access to my account?

Does this hack infect devices used to access lemmy.world?

Sorry for noob questions, I'm just worried.

Well that's just great it really is a shame though how some people would actively want to ruin something free like this just because they can.

Rock on, Rudd.

This seems way worse than they are making it sound.

Thank you for taking the time to update this :) Hope everything will be sorted out without people being scared. As a layman, was any user data compromised?

I noticed this morning for a small amount of my posts with pictures, maybe 5-10%, the pictures were deleted or missing. Not sure if this is related to the incident.