Very impressed by how quickly action has been taken by this and other instances to patch the issue.

I wish hackers would invest their time in clearing credit card debt, deleting hospital fees, or something else that actually serves the public good, instead of hacking ordinary people just trying to get by.

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: My account was not among those hacked. Any random bullshit appearing in my post/comment history was written by me.

what steps are being taken to ensure it doesn't happen again? was any personal data compromised for users?

Thank the heavens the meme community stayed safe through this without my daily dose of cybersecurity memes idk how I would function ;)

Thanks Ruud for fixing it! Just a reminder guys that If you are using a third party app you need to login again.

Ugh, people should not go after systems trying to give a free service to the internet. It just ruins everything.

That shit sucks, I'm so sorry. I'm glad you got it under control. Nothing but admiration from me for doing all this hard work.

New code, new challenges. It's a new world out there and largely is pretty great. Thanks again.

Amazing how you quickly reacted to this!! Bravo!!

TIP: if you can't login after what happened, clear out your browser cache including ALL cookies, that fixes it (it did for me at least). I believe it's also advisable to change lemmy password.

Good job. I don't understand very much of that, so that makes me all the more grateful. Thank you.

Thanks for fixing and being so open about it

Huh, i think i got lucky by forgetting that there is something i can consume other than youtube

First - really good summary and sounds like everyone is working hard.

Cross posting the below comment.

Under GDPR if you have had a data breach you have a legal obligation to assess whether you need to report it and you must make the report within 72 hours of discovering the breach.

There are other types of reportable breaches too, I only mention data as it sounds most likely. You may or may not be subject to PECR which may also have been breached although less likely. I don’t really have enough familiarity with the regulation to discuss that one.

If you are not sure if there has been a breach you may also need to discuss it with the relevant body or make a report.

Please can you update what action you have taken regarding this and if the incident was reportable or not and the reasons why. Edit - from that new information, it sounds like this is a reportable breach.

For a full understanding, it would be good to know if you had 2FA enabled on the compromised account particularly as it had admin privileges and if so how 2FA was circumvented with this exploit.

It would also be good to know what measures you have in place to prevent the same or other malicious attempts on your Open Collective and Patreon accounts as issues with those are potentially more serious. They may not be vulnerable to this, but it is going to be reassuring to know there is good security practice, 2FA protection etc enabled and you have robust procedures in place.

Damn, I go to bed early and I miss everything! Thanks for the quick resolution and transparent disclosure, this place is great!

Is that why I got logged off?

Do we have any details on how Michelle's account was compromised? Right now in the GitHub issue about the vulnerability they're clueless about how the custom emoji exploit could be performed without first an already compromised admin account.

EDIT: yeah here's how: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1895#issuecomment-1629326627

You do NOT need an admin account to do that. Any normal user could have done that.

I just disabled whole "/admin" section on my instance and added nice message 😆