Hacked Reddit Data To Be Published Unless API Changes Dropped, Hackers Say
www.forbes.com
The criminal group behind the February Reddit hack is now demanding $4.5 million and the dropping of API changes, or the stolen data will be published.
  • const_void@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Probably should’ve invested in better security instead of trying to chase tech trends like NFTs.

  • FarceMultiplier@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    No website is invulnerable. Since we know from Reddit’s godawful official app they don’t do development very well, no doubt the website also has vulnerable holes.

  • gentleman@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    @Phoeniqz If Reddit is only announcing the hack now then that is very likely going to be a legal problem in a number of US jurisdictions, not to mention EU and others.

  • femboy_link.mp4@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    If you think this will change anything at Reddit, think again.

    Reddit will not pay them or meet their demands. If they do reverse any of their API changes, it won’t be because of this. Businesses can’t been seen to be caving to ransomware groups and rightly so, as it just encourages more of these types of attacks. ALPHV is 100% trying to cash in on the current resentment towards Reddit and it shows.

    We also don’t know what exactly has been accessed, as neither the group nor Reddit will confirm beyond Reddit stating that no production systems or user data was accessed. It could be 80GB of cat GIFs for all we know - I’m going to need more evidence that they have something big than a screenshot of the attacker saying “trust me bro”.

      • CookieJarObserver@feddit.deEnglish
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        1 year ago

        See, there is the problem, “according to reddit” they probably don’t even know themselves currently. I don’t believe them anyway.

        • femboy_link.mp4@beehaw.orgEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          They can 100% know what was accessed and what wasn’t. This didn’t just happen, it happened in February and their SOC team or an external company would have conducted a full sweep as they’re legally required to disclose what was breached in many of the territories they operate in, which they did four days after the incident took place. I know it’s on trend to hate Reddit right now, but it’s not some one man operation running on a dusty old server in a garage, it’s something like the 20th most visited website on the entire internet, and that comes with certain legal obligations. They know what they’re doing and clearly take this kind of thing seriously.

          You don’t have to believe them, but there’s no proof that any user data was breached and they seem to have followed the proper protocols so far. Unless anything else comes out, I’m inclined to believe that they’re telling the truth, or at least not lying.

  • njinx@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Sucks that they lumped API changes into their demands. This is going to make good-faith protestors look bad.

    • Phoeniqz@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      1 year ago

      The article says, the data supposedly contains information about Reddit’s tracking system. I don’t think we want that in the FediVerse