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Did the blog get hacked (again?) in between this being posted and now? It has what looks like password hashes and `uname -a` from every(?) server in their infrastructure.

This is about as bad as IR can get: you realize you got hacked, you re-build your entire infrastructure and publicly say it's fixed, and then you get popped again...

i think so. here is a wayback machine link to the previous blog post https://web.archive.org/web/20190412000400/https://matrix.or...

it stated "Having fully flushed out the attacker [...]" which i guess turned out to be false :-/

also im getting invalid HTTPS certs on the blog now. for some reason im getting a cert that looks like its for github.com ?

edit: now im getting a lets encrypt cert on matrix.org, but a cloudflare SSL error page when i go to www.matrix.org ? the lets encrypt cert looks like it was just issued about an hour ago.

edit2: i guess both with and without www. are lets encrypt, but the with www. cert was issued back in february (and gives a cloudflare SSL error page), while without www. was issued today. (and gives the current hacked message)

Here is the message of the hacker, after the matrix.org admins allegedly cleaned everything up and wrote the original blog post: https://web.archive.org/web/20190412055614/https://matrix.or...

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