Re:Write Simply
by PascLeRasc on Thursday March 11, 2021 @03:18PM
(#26428529)
Email from [email protected], sent on March 9th
Last night, we logged out your Github account to fix a security flaw. Your account was not breached. You can read more details here [1].
[1] https://github.blog/2021-03-08-github-security-update-a-bug-...
This is good but without the extra words "extremely rare, potential harm.." this feels like it was a dangerous miss. I would worry about future such occurrences rather than just archiving it. Also I would definitely read more details. So perhaps this message works better in educating users
"On the evening of March 8, we logged out all users from GitHub.com who had logged in prior to 12:03 UTC on March 8. This was done to protect users from an extremely rare, but potentially serious, security vulnerability affecting a very small number of GitHub.com sessions. No user accounts were affected"
I really couldn't simplify much without losing information. Logging out users isn't the same as invalidation of authenticated sessions because this probably revoked access to bots / API calls etc.