This is why I've decided against running my own Lemmy instance. Too much work to have to keep up constantly with updating, too big of an attractive target for attackers.

Interesting.

Attackers started changing site settings and posting fake announcements etc

So at least that wasn't 100% malicious, otherwise they could've kept the vuln hidden and just collect data and whatnot.

On the other hand, who cared enough about Lemmy to hack it? Weird.

I can't log into my account anymore, this one is a new one I've just made. I tried to reset my password but nothing came in the mailbox. I can still see comments and posts from that account though.

It's this one:

And I don't know why but I can't save the profile pic for this account.

Edit: Nvm, I use another email to sign up for Lemmy and forgot about it

With the JWT secret rotation, shouldn't everyone be forced to re-login? I'm posting with my existing session without any changes.

Must have been jealous spez

If I'm not from lemmy.world and visited a lemmy.world community via my home instance, does the hacker gain access to my account?

If I, while logged in to my home instance, accessed lemmy.world in another tab, does the hacker gain access to my account?

Does this hack infect devices used to access lemmy.world?

Sorry for noob questions, I'm just worried.

Thanks for the transparency. Was having issues with Lemmy, now seems everything back to normal. Got a question, Just to add an extra layer of security, Do i need to use ToR or VPN with Lemmy ?

Well that's just great it really is a shame though how some people would actively want to ruin something free like this just because they can.

Rock on, Rudd.

Here's a relevant post that talked about this with @[email protected] I think is worth looking into for anyone curious what exactly happened.

https://sh.itjust.works/post/923025

please don't visit the legal section of the website or anything confirmed compromised if anything.

I noticed this morning for a small amount of my posts with pictures, maybe 5-10%, the pictures were deleted or missing. Not sure if this is related to the incident.

Excellent, thanks for the quick response ruud and admins.

Thanks all working again. Had to clear my browser cache in order to login again and had to resign in to memmy too.

I guess its early days for lemmy for incidents like this, fingers crossed something like this doesn't happen again :)