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PSA: Lemmy.world has been compromised!
(lemmy.ml)
The "Hot" sort topic:
It was cleaned up on the home page, but now back to being defaced as of this comment time.
Another user on the site confirmed this:
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Don't know if this will be relevant at all, but I'm almost hoping this will force Lemmy devs to abandon the obscure markdown crate they use for pulldown-cmark.
Using an obscure markdown implementation just because it supports spoiler tags always sounded like a silly decision to me!
I'm seeing zero comments come out of Lemmy.world in the past 15 minutes, app users shouldn't have been redirected... and users commenting from other servers should be going to communities homed there. I wonder if they shut off federation. I normally see over 10 comments a minute: https://lemmyadmin.bulletintree.com/query/comments_ap_id_host_prev?output=table&timeperiod=15
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Wtf? What even is happening?
Well shit, just set up shop here. Had made a back up account on vlemmy the other day and that's down too. What's going on?
Vlemmy.net went down? Anyone know why or how?
No one knows, site went down suddenly with no explanation
And it’s likely we won’t get an explanation. The admin closed their donation accounts too. Looks like they either walked away or got seriously hacked. It seems they were worried about illegal material on their server, which was on their own machine at home, so walking away would make a lot of sense.
They had a pure open federation model, so anyone who subscribed to an instance that hosts child porn put the instance owner at risk of child porn possession charges. I wonder if the owner came across a problem file that was cached from an external server and said "Nope. Dealing with this is above my pay grade"
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Looked like the admin u/MichelleG over there got hacked. That account posted a couple stickied posts and then all the css and links started changing on the site.
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Just clicked into Lenny.world and saw “site has been seized by Reddit for copyright infringement “
The admins now appears to have taken down the backend in an effort to stop the defacing.
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Yikes, hope they can find and disclose whatever they used to compromise an admin account.
It appears that the deface attack is back in full swing (racial slurs and all the redirects)
this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2023
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