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The website icon has changed, name changed to Israel, and the site title now includes a slur.

Anyone, if you know anything, please let the rest of us know.

edit: Most things seem to be okay now.

Edit 2: we are under attack again.

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[–] nosut@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Admin account was compromised. Looks like they are working on it but it will take a bit to fix all the stupid that was done.

EDIT: Looks like things are starting to resolve.

EDIT 2: MichelleG account admin was restored and she posted and update but shortly after the changes happened again. Her account is likely still compromised with someone else accessing things via it.

EDIT 3: lemmy.world back online. MichelleG has again been removed as admin. Most things appear to have been cleaned up. Blocked instances still need to be fixed however.

[–] AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It really wouldn't hurt to have admins in different timezones as right now this hack could have been much worse, imagine everything gets deleted and the site redirects to CP, the reputation gets immediately destroyed.

The hackers however knew what they were doing, they seem to know Lemmy well enough and it's curious that they targeted lemmy.world despite it being popular only among people already a bit familiar with Lemmy and the Fediverse. Other people would usually look at join-lemmy and lemmy.ml first.

[–] Soullioness@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

As frustrating as that would be, it wouldn't be permanent I know they're very serious with backups. A roll back is annoying but not really that damaging.

[–] TheVampireSaga@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

fyi for anyone curious, they've targeted multiple other instances now

[–] makeitso@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Looks like it is compromised once again? It was fine for me and just a minute ago went back to “Israel” and porn.

[–] nosut@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep. MichelleG admin was added back and posted an update but it doesnt appear that her account was fully secured so they are probably still accessing it via her account.

[–] Chozo@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And this is why 2FA is so important.

[–] Obscura@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

It’s my understanding that the attack compromised an already active, authenticated session, which would get around 2FA.

[–] hackitfast@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] Vupperware@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] mawp@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Rooki@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] mawp@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

We did it ~~Reddit~~ Lemmy!

[–] dopeshark@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Images you can hear

[–] nosut@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

It's all public information.

Admins are shown on the front page

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