Security notice: CL submission system (submissions.cljournal.org)
10 November 2026
On 30 October 2026, we learned that malicious code had been inserted into the journal’s online submission system, submissions.cljournal.org, following a system-wide security incident affecting our service provider, Dreamhost. The code captured the username, email, and password entered on the login page and sent them to an unknown third party. We took the system offline the same day, and it remains offline. This does not affect any other ACL systems like the ACL web portal, the wikis, or ACL rolling review.
What this means for you
If you logged in to submissions.cljournal.org in the recent few months, please treat that password as compromised. Information in your user profile (name, email address, affiliation) may also have been accessed.
If you use the same password on any other site, change it there now.
What we are doing
Working together with the ACL Executive Committee, we are moving the submission system to a professionally managed host, PKP Publishing Services, and restoring it from a clean copy. We expect this to take one to two weeks. When the system reopens, all existing passwords will be invalidated and you will be required to set a new one.
While the system is offline
Authors: New submissions and revisions cannot be uploaded. Deadlines affected by the outage will be extended. If you have an upcoming deadline, please contact us.
Reviewers: Please keep your review in a local document. You can submit it when the system reopens.
We will post updates on this page and will email users. Questions: edasst@cljournal.org.
We apologise for the disruption and thank you for your patience.
The Computational Linguistics Editorial Team