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PSA: We're back, here's a post-mortem! (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi Beeple!

Here's a vague version of events :

11PM EST: Lemmy.world got hacked
12:20AM EST: Blahaj.zone got hacked
12:25AM EST: I shut down the server
12:30AM EST: I make announcements to tell people about this
12:45AM EST: I have an idea of what the problem is but there is no fix
2:20AM EST: I go to sleep
8:50AM EST: The server is booted back up, steps are applied to mitigate issues (Rotating JWTs, Clearing DB of the source of vulnerability, deleting custom emoji), UI is updated with the fix, CSP and other security options are applied
11:40AM EST: We start testing things to make sure are working And well, now here we are.

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To be clear : We have not been hacked as far as we know, we were completely unaffected. This was done preemptively.

Oh yeah, in case, you haven't, this is a good opportunity and reminder to follow us on Mastodon as the communication line was still up despite Beehaw being down : https://hachyderm.io/@beehaw

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (25 children)

12:30AM EST: I make announcements to tell people about this

I think it'd be beneficial to have more backup lines of communication for announcements than just Mastodon.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (24 children)

We have Discord and Matrix channels as well. Do you have anything to suggest?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Something like status-page is always nice. I haven't used it but it looks like https://cachethq.io/ could be a decent fit as well.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There you go, courtesy of @[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Heck yeah! Thanks for getting this up

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