Cloudflare Security Issues

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As you may know, a severe vulnerability was recently found in Cloudflare, a service used by thousands of websites including Reddit, 4chan, and the Leage of Legends official site. This vulnerability caused random pieces of private information to be sent to any computer that was requesting pages from cloudflare. This could include anything from private messages to passwords, so it is recommended that you change every password on the affected websites (and on any other websites where you use the same password). That includes this website. Luckily the vulnerability has already been fully addressed and fixed, but some data has already been leaked.

This was an error in the cloudflare service itself, and none of the affected websites are responsible. It is unlikely that you will have been personally affected, but it is impossible to know how much (if any) data was stolen due to this exploit, and as such you are recommended to change passwords.

This page explains the issue in more detail, and gives a complete list of affected websites: https://github.com/pirate/sites-using-cloudflare

Curse was also affected by this, so anyone who uses the curse launcher should change their curse account password.