Notice of Password Deactivation

Hello everyone, some of you will have the following email in your inbox:

[WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/] Notice of Password Deactivation

Your password on WordPress.org has been deactivated, and you need to reset it to log in again.

We discovered internally a bug in the APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. used by our open sourceOpen Source Open Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL. translation software, GlotPressGlotPress GlotPress is the translation management software that powers Translate.WordPress.org. More information is available at glotpress.org., that could have potentially exposed user data, including email address and encrypted/hashed password stringString A string is a translatable part of the software. A translation consists of a multitude of localized strings..

Based on our analysis of the logs, we don’t think this happened, but out of an abundance of caution we’re proactively disabling the passwords on a couple hundred translation volunteer accounts, one of which is yours.

We apologize for this. When you reset your password, please choose a new one, and as always we discourage using the same password across multiple services.
To reset your password please follow the ‘Lost password?’ link on the login page.

Username: ###USERNAME###
Email: ###EMAIL###

Again, we apologize for this. If you have any questions don’t hesitate to post them in the comments or contact me @ocean90 on SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/..

#announcement

Krzysztof Trynkiewicz (Sukces Strony) 12:59 am on November 24, 2016

So, no such e-mail means we’re OK and don’t need to change the password, correct?
- Egill Erlendsson 1:15 am on November 24, 2016
  
  It never hurts to change your password just in case.
- Dominik Schilling (ocean90) 9:11 am on November 24, 2016
  
  @eclare That’s correct, but as @egill said, changing passwords from time to time doesn’t hurt.
Yui 3:53 am on November 24, 2016

why noticing only polyglots? Anyone who didnt used GlotPressGlotPress GlotPress is the translation management software that powers Translate.WordPress.org. More information is available at glotpress.org. is not affected?
why not all recently (period which bug existed) active GTEGeneral Translation Editor A General Translation Editor (often referred to as GTE) is a person, who has global access to validate strings on all projects for a specific locale. and PTEProject Translation Editor A Project Translation Editor (often referred to as PTE) is a person, who has access to validate strings on a specific project (for example BuddyPress, WooCommerce or Twenty Fourteen) for one specific locale. A project translation editor can approve strings that are added by translation contributors. Per project translation, editors are appointed by a general translation editor after a request by the project author or by the contributors themselves. and contributors… but just a

couple hundred translation volunteer

?
- Dominik Schilling (ocean90) 9:16 am on November 24, 2016
  
  translate.wordpress.orgtranslate.wordpress.org The platform for contributing to the translation of WordPress core, themes and plugins. is the platform of the Polyglots teamPolyglots Team Polyglots Team is a group of multilingual translators who work on translating plugins, themes, documentation, and front-facing marketing copy. https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/., so it makes sense to post it here. Only users which had submitted a translation on this platform were affected.
  
  We could identify the small number of translators by analysing the request logs.
InfiWebs 1:58 pm on November 17, 2017

I didn’t received the mail, but when I try to reset the password, I’m getting this – https://cl.ly/3K2X2q3S0g2d

Password reset is not allowed for this user.

Can you please check and send me the password reset link?
- Tor-Bjorn Fjellner 12:24 am on November 18, 2017
  
  Hi @infiwebs
  You commented with your own problem on an old, unrelated post that doesn’t have anything to do with you.
  You might try to post in the support forumSupport Forum WordPress Support Forums is a place to go for help and conversations around using WordPress. Also the place to go to report issues that are caused by errors with the WordPress code and implementations.: https://wordpress.org/support/forum/miscellaneous/
  
  Or, probably better, would be to grab a SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. account via https://make.wordpress.org/chat/ and then ask this question in the channel “MetaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress.”.

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