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Regarding the recent Lemmy hack *Update* (midwest.social)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by seahorse@midwest.social to c/main@midwest.social

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In case you're not aware, multiple Lemmy instances suffered hacks recently that allowed the hackers to gain admin privileges and deface the instances and/or redirect users to other sites. Luckily, midwest.social was not a victim of this from what I can tell. To mitigate any more issues I have deleted the single custom emoji that had been uploaded and rotated the JWT which means you will have to log in again on all your devices.

Update: The devs have released 0.18.2 with a security fix for this and I've upgraded to it.

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[–] linuxdaemon@midwest.social 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

If you log in and it doesn't show your username, you might have to clear your cookies for midwest.social and login again. I had to do that in Firefox anyway.

[–] EssentialCoffee@midwest.social 2 points 2 years ago

Thanks for this. I needed to do this on Jerboa too.

[–] TheCraiggers@midwest.social 3 points 2 years ago

Thanks for your hard work!

[–] chicory@midwest.social 1 points 2 years ago

Thank you!

[–] Ascrod@midwest.social 1 points 2 years ago

Thank you!