Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-168424-20151021215226/@comment-24473195-20161116215228

Apparently, Wikipedia is getting seriously screwed by constant account hacks this week and even its co-founder and Wikia's owner Jimmy Walles account got hijacked. Interestingly, it is allegedly the same group that hacked facebook's ceo account ( http://gadgets.ndtv.com/internet/news/mark-zuckerbergs-pinterest-account-reportedly-hacked-by-ourmine-1626151). Hopefully jimbo didn't use the same password here.

Perhaps the security measures wikia put in place will prevent them from raiding wikia, which is probably an easier target than wikipedia due to lack of HTTPS, and even lack of two factor authentication(2FA) for regular users.

This (2fa) seems to have been recently enabled for all admins, and bureaucrats on wikimedia.