Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-05-14/Compromised accounts
Administrator status restored to five accounts after emergency desysopping
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This week, a fifth administrator account was temporarily hijacked by the same vandal, although it was restored to the user's control a few hours later. All four of the original administrator accounts have been unblocked and resysopped.
- KnowledgeOfSelf
On Tuesday, 8 May,
- AndyZ
AndyZ (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) was blocked and desysopped on Monday, 7 May, after his password was compromised and his account used for vandalism. AndyZ was unblocked on Tuesday, after establishing his identity to Mark. His administrator rights were restored on Wednesday.
- Jiang
Jiang (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), who was also blocked and desysopped Monday morning, was unblocked Monday evening, 7 May and resysopped Thursday evening, 10 May.
- Marine 69-71
Marine 69-71 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) was unblocked and resysopped on Monday, May 7, a few hours after the hijacking.
- Conscious
Conscious (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) was unblocked and resysopped Thursday after checkuser confirmed that he was still in control of his account.
- BuickCenturyDriver
Finally, the indefinite block on BuickCenturyDriver (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) was lifted three days after the incident, based on an apology and on checkuser evidence that he was responsible for blocking Ryulong from AndyZ's account but was not the culprit behind the attack.
See also
- Template:User committed identity
- Wikipedia:Security
- meta:Don't leave your fly open
- Strong password
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