OVER 2000 FOLLOWERS LOST: There may've been an organised #cyberAttack on the #deCloudflare service, "#altLink".

It recently underwent changes and needed a new instance to change its name to MitiGator. Why change instances? The previous instance, mamot.fr, had #closedRegistrations.

The new, chosen instance may have lured the service to gain follower data and/or destroy the service.

May be a case of #chooseYourInstanceWisely but we're investigating.

#humanError #cloudflare #fedi

EVOLVING STORY: There may've been an organised #cyberAttack on the #deCloudflare service, "#altLink".

It recently underwent changes and needed a new instance to change its name to MitiGator. Why the need to change instances? Well, mamot.fr have #closedRegistrations for new accounts. The new, chosen instance may have lured them to gain follower data and/or destroy the service.

It could be a case of #chooseYourInstanceWisely, but we are investigating.

More soon.

#humanError

There seems to be an ongoing attack on Fediverse infrastructure.

Recently we learned that the website https://fediverse.space is down.

This website helped people find a Fedi instance right for them. It showed where the instance was based, whether #Cloudflare, toot #characterLimits, #uptime, #closedRegistrations and more.

This comes after various devs have been said to have been attacked. These can be seen as attacks on Fedi.

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