this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2023
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Can anyone explain what the hell is happening? I just logged into lemmy when I woke up and I see all of this news of admins being compromised
Here are post about it with some discussion/analysis:
tldr: It seems like they used an exploit to obtain admin accounts' cookies (the thing that keeps you logged into your account) to gain control of their accounts and potentially other exploits to deface the actual instances.
Holy shit! Thanks Sami!
Thank you boss!