Wikipedia under attack

Within the last 24 hours, (at least) four Wikipedia administrators have had their accounts hacked, resulting in four deletions of the main page, and a bit of other vandalism. It appears that each one had a weak, easily guessed password. All editors, admin or no, should change weak passwords immediately, on all Wikimedia projects. No “password”, “fuckyou”, “wikipediarocks”, cat’s names, dictionary words, meaningful numbers, etc.

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2 thoughts on “Wikipedia under attack”

  1. I should probably note that I suggested the password scan (on wikitech-l), then popped onto IRC (#wikimedia-tech) and suggested it again 🙂 Tim was iffy, Greg was all for it and Brion (the decider) ran something Greg had written.

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