All,
As you may have heard, Freenode found some compromised servers on their networks. Network traffic, including SSL traffic, may have been sniffed by a third party.
This likely affects many Wikimedia IRC users, including users who do not speak English, so please forward this notice and translate as needed for the benefit of other Wikimedians.
If you have not changed your nickserv password on September 15 or later, please do so now.
From the Freenode blog:
"Before changing your password, please check your email address in /msg nickserv info and, if needed, update it – see /msg nickserv help set email (remember to check your new email for the verification key). This will ensure that we can send you a password reset email should, for whatever reason, your password change not work properly. If you have no email set on your account or an email set that you cannot access, we cannot send password resets to you, so do please keep this up-to-date.
"To change your password use /msg nickserv set password newpasshere
"Since traffic may have been sniffed, you may also wish to consider any channel keys or similar secret information exchanged over the network." Please direct questions to Freenode IRC ops. They are voiced in the #freenode channel.
Pine
(Translation into Spanish // Traducción al español):
A todos:
Como quizás hayan oído, Freenode encontró servidores comprometidos en sus redes. El tráfico de red, incluyendo el tráfico SSL, ha podido ser leído por terceros.
Esto afecta probablemente a muchos usuarios de los canales Wikimedia en IRC, incluyendo aquellos que no saben inglés, por lo que se ruega que reenvíen este aviso y lo traduzcan si es necesario en beneficio de otros wikimedistas.
Si no han cambiado su contraseña de nickserv desde, al menos, el 15 de septiembre, por favor, háganlo ahora.
Del blog de Freenode:
«Antes de cambiar tu contraseña, por favor, comprueba tu dirección de correo electrónico con /msg nickserv info y, si es necesario, actualízala; revisa /msg nickserv help set email (recuerda comprobar el correo para obtener la clave de verificación). Esto asegurará que podamos enviarte un mensaje para restablecer la contraseña si, por cualquier razón, tu cambio de contraseña no se realiza correctamente. Si no has definido una dirección de correo electrónico, o bien has definido una a la que no puedes acceder, no podemos enviarte mensajes para restablecer la contraseña, así que, por favor, mantén esto al día.»
«Siendo que el tráfico ha sido interceptado, también podrías considerar cambiar cualquier clave de canal o información confidencial similar intercambiada por la red.»
Las preguntas directas, a los operadores de Freenode en IRC, por favor. Tienen voice en el canal #freenode.
(Regards, and thank you, Pine.)
2014-09-24 20:45 GMT+02:00 Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com:
All,
As you may have heard, Freenode found some compromised servers on their networks. Network traffic, including SSL traffic, may have been sniffed by a third party.
This likely affects many Wikimedia IRC users, including users who do not speak English, so please forward this notice and translate as needed for the benefit of other Wikimedians.
If you have not changed your nickserv password on September 15 or later, please do so now.
From the Freenode blog:
"Before changing your password, please check your email address in /msg nickserv info and, if needed, update it – see /msg nickserv help set email (remember to check your new email for the verification key). This will ensure that we can send you a password reset email should, for whatever reason, your password change not work properly. If you have no email set on your account or an email set that you cannot access, we cannot send password resets to you, so do please keep this up-to-date.
"To change your password use /msg nickserv set password newpasshere
"Since traffic may have been sniffed, you may also wish to consider any channel keys or similar secret information exchanged over the network." Please direct questions to Freenode IRC ops. They are voiced in the #freenode channel.
Pine
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