this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2023
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A number of Lemmy instances have been hacked overnight.

Some may remain inaccessible until they have been secured and restarted.

As a safety precaution logged-on sessions on many servers have been cancelled and you are required to logon again.

Unfortunately, the only way I could find to do this in Liftoff! is by going to Settings > Accounts and deleting each local account by long pressing on it, and then create it again.

All your posts, comments and bookmarks should be preserved during this process.

Please see the linked posts for further details as they emerge.

Thanks all, and please bear with us as this gets resolved.

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[–] jherazob@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This seems to be the issue, a code injection using custom emojis. Apparently Lemmy is letting some unsanitized data in, which means that Little Bobby Tables strikes again. Somebody was afraid the attackers had seized control of the whole Lemmy network but federation helps hinder the damage here, only individual instances are affected and they'd have to attack each one independently, a single server service would be fully affected in this case.

Beehaw has fully taken down the server as a preventive measure, i imagine they won't be the last ones doing this.

[–] dismalnow@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

This makes me shudder from my time running forums.

OOB vbulletin was notoriously bad at fending off sql injections, and required CONSTANT monitoring, tweaking, or disabling of basic features to keep the Syrian Liberation Army from pwning an admin account.

Also, and covered in detail, JWT should not be your default for sessions.

[–] TwinTurbo@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, the only way I could find to do this in Liftoff! is by going to Settings > Accounts and deleting each local account by long pressing on it, and then create it again.

Thanks! This is what I did and it worked fine.

[–] Cabeza2000@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

This was driving me crazy. :)

[–] Skellybones@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I manage to log back in my just by relogging my account. I thought I was banned or something

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

Heh, I was sitting there for a few minutes this morning going “oh no what have I broken?” before I found out I could blame hackers.

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

We're in the big leagues now, we got hackers after us. Maybe it was some pissed off reddit user

[–] techgearwhips@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Me too. Lol

[–] andre3000@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

oh shit, is that what happened? i was so confused about what was going on last night. having just created my lemmy account.

So youre the one who hacked it.

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

Oof bad timing!

[–] V4uban@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Thank you for this!

[–] Lifecoach5000@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I actually didn’t have to delete my existing lemmy.world account but I had to re-add it like it was a new account and log in and seemed to fixed it.