leiger 16 Sep 2025 03:16
Hello,
There have been some reports of old accounts on Wikidot becoming compromised and vandalizing popular wikis.
At this point, there is no evidence that this is directly caused by a Wikidot leak. However, it also can't be ruled out (compromised accounts could be caused by an unrelated website breach & those people using the same password on Wikidot).
We have reached out to Wikidot team for further clarification and will update you when we hear more.
In the meantime, it's always good security practice to:
1. Change your passwords regularly (every couple years, at least)
2. Use a unique password for each website and login
For now, the recommendation is to change your password on Wikidot, as a precaution. Also don't share your Wikidot password with any other website.
Many of the sites affected were Iron Giant sites. For example, the Bug Tracker template, revision #7, made by a now deleted account, blocked the entire page from being edited by covering it with a black box, an image, and some text.
There are some other “variants” of the vandalism edits, listed below:
Many people say that it was
Googol02 (and/or their many alts, such as 
googology), a known troll, who hacked them. Though, it is possible that there are multiple hackers, and a lot of this stuff is still just rumors. This Github page includes a list of things they have done.
To remove the vandalism, you can add "/norender/true/1" to the page (which makes the page not render), and then edit the page so that it is reverted back to normal.
A somewhat reliable list of their accounts can be seen here (please do not harass the people on this list, none of this is confirmed). Many of Googol’s accounts have been taken over, presumably by the same person who made the Github site listing Googol’s activity.