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/..

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