Cache Collision Cleared

Blog Discussion in 'BeerAdvocate Talk' started by Todd, May 12, 2026.

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  1. Todd

    Todd Founder (13,518) Aug 23, 1996 Finland
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    Hey, everyone -

    Just before 14:00 or so my time today, one of our cache handling rules glitched out. Mods alerted me, as did @William_Navidson via a thread and DM.

    It didn't last long, but caused some odd behavior that @Giovannilucano @meanmutt and @VodkaPong87 also noticed. Sorry for the WTF moment. :grimacing:

    Bad news: Pages randomly looked like you were logged in as someone else, and in one reported case some cached DMs were exposed.

    Good news: I was able to quickly patch it and purge our cache. No user data was changed or lost, nor were passwords exposed. And the impact was limited to only a couple of dozen users (or less) who on at the time.

    I've been actively monitoring and testing since. No further issues. I've also applied additional measures to help ensure it doesn't happen again.

    Questions? Feel free to drop me a DM.
     
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