I just wanted to inform you all that some other instances got hacked during the night.
It appears to have something to do with a vulnerability regarding costume emojis, but I am not sure about the exact details as I am not that knowledge about coding.
I don’t know if this instances is affected by this, but even some that are not have taken preventive measurements and loged every one out to renew the login token. As the hack stole it, and used it to spread harmful and disturbing posts.
And that’s the beauty of the fediverse. Lemmy.world might get hacked but the rest of the network is unaffected. Hopefully the exploit can be found and patched before any hackers notice our little instance.
While yes, a lot more places then world got hit. So I figured better safe then sorry.
Oh I totally agree and I’m glad you posted here. It’s just nice that having one (or a few) servers compromised doesn’t mean the entire network was compromised.