[Foundation-l] en.wp HACKED?

Sage Ross ragesoss+wikipedia at gmail.com
Mon Jun 20 01:44:27 UTC 2011


On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Ryan Lomonaco <wiki.ral315 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Risker <risker.wp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure what kind of on-wiki discussions you might expect to see,
>> Sage.
>>
>
> I think he might have been going with Chris' assertation that every page was
> affected, which doesn't appear to be true - the template's transcluded on
> just under 1,000 pages.  My guess is that all of the pages Chris saw were
> affected, but the vast majority of articles weren't, meaning that it's not
> anything new.
>

Yep, I was assuming that it actually was vandalism that appeared on
every page or a huge number of pages, and thus either some admin
account had been compromised or something else went a lot more wrong
than the typical template vandalism.

Thanks, Max and Casey, for the diffs.

-Sage



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