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From: Stanley Lieber <sl@stanleylieber.com>
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] werc got "hacked"
Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2022 16:42:38 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9125915D-A156-4DE0-8192-5217D5533299@stanleylieber.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YRt2ScWVD1D1_G3E79KntM05_XSzRx_PCtokeijG4dOParcdp9yUvVopwqt2i-Kb5ZzlUB8mKyD47kdLzk70TZkGRlNxx5ZUzMtIx5-377I=@protonmail.com>

we turned off the entire vm until we had a fix. 4chan was able to read files outside the website root, but nothing private was stored on the server. very old werc passwords for defunct websites were leaked, as well as all of our mailing list subscriber lists that any of them thought to look for. no other form of attack was reported by 4chan, or detected by us.

sl


> On Apr 2, 2022, at 4:32 PM, Hensley <hens25252@protonmail.com> wrote:
> 
> did we take down the 9front.org pages or was that 4chan?
> 
> ------- Original Message -------
> 
>> On Thursday, March 31st, 2022 at 2:38 AM, hiro <23hiro@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> some 4chan has looked into the werc and found some files, some of
>> 
>> which seem to be the werc passwords.
>> 
>> posting here in case somebody has a werc password that is also used in
>> 
>> other places.
> 


      reply	other threads:[~2022-04-02 20:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-31  9:38 hiro
2022-03-31 22:46 ` Stanley Lieber
2022-04-02 19:43 ` Hensley
2022-04-02 20:42   ` Stanley Lieber [this message]

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