PSA: Cloudflare Security Breach

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  1. TheNexusAvenger
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    Technical blog (by Cloudflare): Incident report on memory leak caused by Cloudflare parser bug
    Simplified blog (by Discord): Safety Jim PSA: Cloudflare Security Issue – Discord Blog

    Cloudflare recently had a security breach, which includes passwords. Too keep the post short, a list of noteworthy websites can be found here, and you can use Ctrl + F to find your particular website of interest. This affected data from 9/22/2016 to 2/18/2017.

    Here are a few noteworthy sites that use Cloudflare:
    adf.ly
    bukkit.org
    discordapp.com
    gyazo.com
    planetminecraft.com
    reddit.com
    xenforo.com (the Skyblock forum softare)
    Uber
     
    TheNexusAvenger, Feb 24, 2017
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    xenforo site really wouldn't matter because skyblock doesn't use cloudflare (they use something worse called proxypipe)
     
    Kawaii--, Feb 24, 2017
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    sounds like a fun thing. 'proxypipe'.
     
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    Krissy Stray Kids everywhere all around the world Administrator Discord Administrator Premium Premium

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    tl;dr? change your passwords regardless on sites you use, especially ones on the list
     
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