This incident made me realize not to use an admin account for my primary lemmy account in my personal instance. I setup another account for instance admin purpose (with 2FA enabled) and keep it logged out, then remove my primary account from the instance admin list.

Having recently migrated from Reddit (and kept up with commercial social media hacks) I'm used to Nothing To See Here! We totally didn't store your personal information in plaintext for hackers to snatch. Oh and maybe please change your passwords. All Part Of The Show!

So, by comparison, the response here is downright heartwarming.

If there is interest in an external audit of lemmy and the costs are affordable, I’ll look into crowdfunding this cost.

It could get VERY, VERY expensive... depends on code complexity.

Was lemmy.ml affected ?

A code security audit is done. This will likely just be casual reviews by technical lemmy users. However, I will be reaching out to the Mozilla Foundation and Cure53 as they recently did an audit of Mastodon. If there is interest in an external audit of lemmy and the costs are affordable, I’ll look into crowdfunding this cost.

You don't need to pay money. You just need to listen to the recommendations already made by free tools.

Here, fix this shit first and then worry about a professional audit later.

also, I cannot properly login into my lemmy.world account anymore. username/password work, but when I try to upvote it tells me i gotta be logged in. Tried apps and web.

How do I contact my instance admin?

I went ahead and logged out and back in on my own, but I was not prompted to do so by Lemmy and I don't know enough about this stuff to say whether or not doing it on my own would've helped. I'm still pretty overwhelmed trying to figure this site out, so I apologize if this is a dumb question, just want to make sure I'm doing what I can to protect my own privacy.

I don't want to fall for the millennial version of a Nigerian prince scam, lol.

Good reminder that: small instances = small impact. Both true for the positive and the negative.

Good thing we don't have custom emojis on monero.town and the admin account isn't used for things outside of the local community :D

XSS, classic

Thanks for your hard work, fuck the trolls that always have to poke holes in shit

XSS, Seriously?

This post is weird. You're typing like you're in charge of things, but you're apparently not.

It's one thing to show some initiative, but you're literally demanding a full report like the Lemmy devs work for you. You sound like someone who does this kind of thing for a living and felt the need to flex. Because otherwise, what the hell are you even doing?

Setting neurotically-specific demands for the developers makes sense if you represent a big instance or something, but you're literally just a dude. You could have framed this entire post in a different way and gotten away with it. Right now, it's creepy to anybody who actually reads the entire thing.