One of the admin accounts appears to have been compromised. The owner/other admins appear to be aware now because that account had its admin access revoked and offending posts are being removed.
Definitely opens up a big question about the security of Lemmy instances that I am sure will be discussed over the next few days.
More time will definitely be needed. I’m glad they caught it and acted quickly enough to prevent more vandalism from occurring, but until we know how the account was compromised and what else they may have gotten in the process, it’s still a situation to keep an eye on.
Not a whole lot - you might see some spam being federated from lemmy.world but I’d expect the lemmy.ml and lemmy.world admins will fix it, and them clean it up.
That’s probably good stress test to figure out how to handle that.
How did it happen and what does this mean for me as a user of lemmy.ml who also follows people on lemmy.world?
One of the admin accounts appears to have been compromised. The owner/other admins appear to be aware now because that account had its admin access revoked and offending posts are being removed.
Definitely opens up a big question about the security of Lemmy instances that I am sure will be discussed over the next few days.
I wouldn’t assume reasons why or that it’s fixed until that consensus has been more widely reached.
More time will definitely be needed. I’m glad they caught it and acted quickly enough to prevent more vandalism from occurring, but until we know how the account was compromised and what else they may have gotten in the process, it’s still a situation to keep an eye on.
They are still acting on it, seems.
They added 2FA login to lemmy in one of the newer updates. Probably pretty pertinent for any admins to use it…
It’s buggy and missing some key checks to make sure it’s working when you set it up.
Real risk of locking yourself out of your account.
oh, really? maybe i’ll turn mine off then…Thanks for the heads up!
Mostly a risk on initial setup.
I’ve been waiting a bit for it to stabilize and just using huge random passwords
If you’re using a password manager you’d be doing this for every site and without even having to think about it. Bitwarden is a great choice.
Oh I do. Used Bitwarden for many years.
I actually use keepass for totp codes too.
Also I believe this was achieved through cookie stealing, which 2FA would not have helped
Too bad it doesn’t work with several 2FA apps and right now…
Thanks for the context
They really need to improve their 2fa implementation
Not a whole lot - you might see some spam being federated from lemmy.world but I’d expect the lemmy.ml and lemmy.world admins will fix it, and them clean it up.
That’s probably good stress test to figure out how to handle that.
Thanks for the response very helpful.