I hope they can bring the site back up soon and that it is not gone forever.

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    it sounds like the issue is spreading through comments and involves the markdown parser.

    What do you mean? Is there something that us normal users can do to mitigate this? Or do we just hope that the devs and admins resolve this?

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      This is the conversation I’m referring to:

      https://i.imgur.com/uqW3P8o.png

      It may well be that the lemmy.world admin account was compromised as a result of the hack, rather than to make it happen.

      Apparently Memmy is immune to this, not sure about other apps. Someone else advised staying loggged out, and maybe be prepared to change your password after it’s resolved.

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        Thanks for the explanation.

        I’ve already made the decision earlier to change my passwords (on all my accounts on different instances) after this has been resolved.

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          FWIW, right now it seems unlikely that your password was accessible to anyone. Your login cookie may have been taken if you accessed Lemmy on a web browser (apps are likely fine), so you would want to clear your Lemmy cookies and cache once this is over.

          But I’m speculating, and changing your password will definitely help!

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        Looks like it could be some kind of markdown parser injection, where they manage to forcefully close the HTML src property and enter their own