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Re:Matrix.org hacked by BartBoch on Friday April 12, 2019 @05:36AM (#19643392)
I have just checked quickly the comments and post-mortem, and I start wondering - it seems that the attack itself would be not really possible if Matrix would not be open source (as this would restrict access to the sensitive data)? Is that right?
Re:Matrix.org hacked by t3chguy on Friday April 12, 2019 @05:50AM (#19643444)
This is not right at all, the hack was due to an outdated Jenkins instance and could have happened regardless of what other software was running on the infrastructure.
Re:Matrix.org hacked by notyourday on Friday April 12, 2019 @06:13AM (#19643531)
Absolutely not. There's a zero reason for development infrastructure ( which includes Jenkins ) to have any connection to production outside a well defined "transfer this tarball" to a deploy staging server path during a known deploy window which cannot be controlled via development credentials.