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Pardon the ignorance, but how do I know if I was compromised? what do?
What could a hacker even do with your Lemmy info? Unless you are posting critical information about yourself I don't see this as a huge issue. More of a concern for the mod and admin teams imo
Ah okay, I just see ''hacked'' and I freak out every time.
Thank god I used Firefox Relay to mask my true email... and a random password, I'll change it just in case.
Just to clarify... I don't need to delete cookies and sign out of every account on my PC to be safe? me don't understand
The most I see is that they could see your IP address. Not good if you are being stalked. Again I don't think this is a very big deal. If you are worried turn on a VPN.
IP addresses aren't logged by Lemmy
Not even in the BE?
And does Lemmy offer this feature, it's just that it's disabled on lemmy.world, or is a feature like this not available at all?
No, just clear cookies for lemmy.world.
They were after admin account info. You can f up a lot of things if you're an admin.
You would see an overdraft and a fee charge on your account where you had 37 dollars.
If you opened an infected page they were able to use your session. That means acting as your account, including seeing and changing your settings. (Which could have allowed them to change your account email or password.)
Nothing beyond that.
If information is complete, attackers gained access to active user sessions by leaking cookies via script injection, access would have been terminated when the cookies were invalidated. They likely did not have access to your password (changing it never hurts though).
You'd see everyone plastering the information that was leaked and telling everyone to change the appropriate credentials.
Because that's not happening, you can probably relax.