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Potential hacking: Bagging maps blank, plus dodgy leaflet

Potential hacking: Bagging maps blank, plus dodgy leaflet


Postby LizAB » Mon Jun 06, 2022 7:57 am

Hi, as of yesterday (Sunday 5th June 2022) all of my bagging map pages are totally blank, ie no map at all. Also in the bottom right hand corner there is a link entitled “Leaflet” which leads to a website about Ukraine and Russia.

I am using an iPad and Safari.
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Re: Potential hacking: Bagging maps blank, plus dodgy leafle

Postby Paul Webster » Mon Jun 06, 2022 8:41 am

There has been no hack of either Walkhighlands or of Leaflet.

For people who don't know, Leaflet is the most popular and respected modern javascript opensource libraries for showing maps on websites. Leaflet was originally founded by a Ukrainian and they currently have a Ukraine appeal banner on their homepage.
https://leafletjs.com/
Leaflet is used by companies around the world from Facebook to the Financial Times, government websites including the US and the European Union, and by the OpenStreetMap project.

Our map tile server is running normally, so the problem is likely corruption in your browser cache. This would be confirmed if you try another browser or device and find it is working. You can fix by doing a hard refresh (or clearing cache); otherwise the problem will go away on its own when your cache expires. As this has seemed quite common on iOS devices in recent months, I've shortened the time it will refresh on its own to a few days from a month.
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Re: Potential hacking: Bagging maps blank, plus dodgy leafle

Postby LizAB » Mon Jun 06, 2022 5:05 pm

Thanks for this prompt reply and information, Paul.
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