Statement from ACL and EACL 2026 Organizers

On Nov 27, OpenReview was notified of a software bug that allowed unauthorized access to authors, reviewers, and area chairs. We are grateful to the OpenReview team for fixing the issue quickly.

Any use, exploitation, or sharing of the leaked information is a violation of OpenReview's Terms of Use (https://openreview.net/legal/terms) and ACL's code of conduct (https://2026.eacl.org/code/) and may result in OpenReview account suspension, desk rejection and multi-year bans from *ACL conferences.

Doxxing, harassment, or any form of retaliation (whether online or in person) will not be tolerated.

The statement issued by the OpenReview Team is available here (https://openreview.net/forum/user%7Cstatement_regarding_api_security_inc...).

The ACL exec, ACL PEC and EACL 2026 chairs