At a minimum they had some hacked web UI mayhem going on along with at least 1 admin account compromised…now they are in an at least partially down state. Might be worth alerting the Powers That Be to see if they want to offer assistance and if any measures should be taken to protect servers federated with it.

  • astropenguin5@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    1 year ago

    well that would explain the problem i had then! the error page redirected me to this community very helpfully. i was meaning to make another account on a smaller instance anyways, so not entirely bad

  • darrsil@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’m surprised I haven’t seen more posts yet about this. A rogue or compromised admin put JavaScript redirects on Lemmy.world as well as changed the name and some other things. The other admins removed the compromised admin, but then about 30 minutes later they were reinstated and started wreaking havoc again. The instance eventually went offline completely.

  • spitz@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I deleted my .world account yesterday. Sorry if it’s a stupid question, but do I have to do anything about that? If so, what?

      • spitz@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I got that much, but I don’t understand anything else. JavaScript injection? Is someone going to steal my deleted account or is that not possible?

        • ugh@lemm.eeEnglish
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          1 year ago

          From what I’ve read, links were redirecting to “shock” websites. It’s more of an old-internet Rick roll, but with gore type content instead of a silly music video. I don’t think we have to worry about data, but we’ll learn more in the next hour(s).