This post explains the incident well but long story short some hackers were able to compromise user and admin accounts through stolen authentication cookies on some instances.

Before things were clear on exactly how this happened, we pulled the plug on our instance to mitigate the risk. We probabaly should have hastily wrote an announcment post before doing that but the situation seemed critical so we didn’t want to waste any time.

Few hours later, people were able to figure out the issue and promptly fix it. Turns out this vulnerabilty could only be exploited if an instance had custom emojis which thankfully ours didn’t, so users using this instance should be safe from the hack. lemmy.fmhy.ml now runs on v18.1rc which has fixed this vuln to be extra secure.

Sorry for the downtime and we will try to communicate the problem better in the future.

P.S. After somone mentioned exploding-heads on a recent post and why we are still federated with it, we took some time to view it carefully and decided it’s an instance that systematically breaks our rules and to defederate with it. We will shortly post our defederation policy soon to give a better idea on how we will decide on which instance to defederate from moving forward.

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    1 year ago

    I can upload images in img section of the post but I can’t upload them in comments, “private” messages and bodies of the posts, is this related to this exploit and it was turned off on purpose or is it an unrelated issue?