Computational Linguistics journal submission system hacked, login credentials stolen
fredahshi · x · 2026-11-11
The Computational Linguistics journal disclosed that malicious code was inserted into its online submission system (submissions.cljournal.org) on October 30, following a system-wide security incident at its provider Dreamhost. The code captured usernames, emails, and passwords entered on the login page and sent them to an unknown third party.
- The system was taken offline the same day and remains down; other ACL systems (portal, wikis, ARR) are unaffected
- Anyone who logged in recently should treat their password as compromised and change it if reused elsewhere; profile data (name, email, affiliation) may also have been accessed
- The journal is migrating to professionally managed hosting (PKP Publishing Services) and restoring from a clean copy, expected to take 1-2 weeks; all existing passwords will be invalidated
- New submissions and revisions are blocked meanwhile; affected deadlines will be extended, and reviewers should keep reviews locally
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