As if Reddit wasn’t already having serious issues these days, they have allegedly been hacked by AlphV (aka BlackCat), who write: Operators broke into...

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In our last email to them, we stated that we wanted $4.5 million in exchange for the deletion of the data and our silence. As we also stated, if we had to make this public, then we now demand that they also withdraw their API pricing changes along with our money or we will leak it.

We expect to leak the data.

    • LvxferreOPM
      15·
      1 year ago

      The article doesn’t say, but if I had to take a guess, it’s either

      1. internal data from the company - exposing a few skeletons in the closet
      2. user data - showing that Reddit is unable to protect its own users.

      Either should cause quite a bit of damage to Reddit, in addition to the protests.

        • LvxferreOPM
          7·
          1 year ago

          Ditto. I want to see Reddit gone but #2 might hurt people who have nothing to do with this.