Further to Reddit's recent woes since the announcement of the API pricing change, claims have surfaced that it has suffered a data breach at the hands of BlackCat , with 80GB of zipped data taken.

cross-posted from: https://chat.maiion.com/post/3401

Reddit’s week appears to have gone from bad to worse, as AlphV (aka BlackCat) has claimed that operators broke into Reddit’s servers on February 5, 2023, and took 80 GB of zipped data. . Furthermore, Reddit has been contacted by BlackCat, once on April 13 and again on June 16, with no response and no attempt to find out what was taken. Following recent fallout from the subreddit blackouts, and the controversial comments from CEO Steve Huffman, Reddit has been having a tough time in the eyes of its users who have been reportedly leaving the platform and setting up alternatives on the fediverse (such as Lemmy or kbin), used by the Twitter alternative Mastodon.

https://www.neowin.net/news/reddit-claimed-to-have-been-hacked-by-blackcat-and-it-has-threatened-to-leak-the-data/

https://www.databreaches.net/blackcat-claims-they-hacked-reddit-and-will-leak-the-data/

  • NewEnglandBlueberry@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    2 years ago

    If that includes user data (such as emails, phone #s, social media accounts, etc.) that’s bad news for all of us who have or had accounts with them.

    • lowleveldataEnglish
      20·
      2 years ago

      Why would reddit have your phone #s, social media accounts, etc?

    • waigl@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      2 years ago

      Good thing I never gave reddit any of those, despite their continued nagging over the years…

    • eee@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      the whole point of reddit is that it doesn’t have any of my user data, apart from what they can scrape from my browser such as IP address and browser fingerprint(s).