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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/

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Remember when reddit was hip enough to have a canary system and now they don't even disclose hacks anymore. It's not the same platform. Good riddance.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Good point. Didn't notice that detail in the linked articles.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

God I remember reading about Reddit's warrant canary being taken down.

I remember thinking that it was no big deal and it will always be the same.

How wrong and naive I was lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

it's so weird to me that dead canarys are not half as big a thing as I'd expect them to be
For example, it's been close to a decade since Apples Warrant Canary died, and still people consider Apple trustworthy with their data...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I wonder if it's not so much that people don't care but rather that every big tech company will inevitably receive such warrants. Even if you don't use those services, most devices by default use the (probably backdoor-ed) NIST ECC algorithms.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Sounds like reddit is having a bad year.

sips coffee

Oh well. How's everyone's Sunday? I'm making pulled pork sliders tonight.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Pad Thai with zucchini, squash, and cilantro from my garden. Eggs are from my chickens. Everything else super fresh from a local farmers market.

Spez did a little FAFO dance.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Mexican discada tacos over here

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Maybe some tasty rice. I want to get an instantpot; never had one before but I have heard they are amazing

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Seconding Corran.

I use mine to cook dog food every week (poor guy is allergic to damn near everything). Often cooks a couple family meals during the week, too. Great labor saver

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

So good that [https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-14/pyrex-instant-pot-maker-seeks-bankruptcy-protection/102480242](the company went bust), partly because people weren’t replacing them frequently enough.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Haven't decided.

Maybe ziti with meat balls and marinara, or some bratwurst with potatoes.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Smash burgers on the new flattop I just finished seasoning.

Pulled pork sliders sounds like a great plan for an upcoming weekend

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I’m making burritos with rice, refried beans that I forgot were homemade, guacamole (with onions this time), and some Beyond ground beef seasoned with the spices in the cabinet that I like but can’t name.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I spent the day playing Subnautica on my Switch, cuddling with my dog, and trying to recover from dehydration caused by the wicked sunburn I got yesterday. Finally feeling better internally. My skin is killing me tho. I can't even apply aloe because my burn is on my back and I can't reach it. Gotta love living alone lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

what if you were to lay down plastic wrap on the floor, spred a puddle of aloe vera gel on top and then lie down on top of the puddle?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Had some pasta with old sausages from the freezer earlier. Surprisingly wasn't that bad.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I did laundry at my parents place with my wife. She's scared of my mom so we did it while they were out of town.

Tried a really good Italian place with the wife afterward was a good date.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Im currently deep in Unix books

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Who is Unix books, and where did you meet her?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The library

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago

Great , we need all the more Bad news spreading about reddit.

they did the entire stunt to open for IPO likely this will screw them.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They're sign up options. You can sign up with Google, Apple, email and they ask users for their phone number for some reason as well iirc.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year 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).

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

The crumbling of Reddit continues.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

No matter the outcome, it's one hell of a ride.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Does anyone know where they are going to leak that data to the public? A torrent? DL? I2P?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Only on their App i bet

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Idk how this one is working, but didn't many hacker attacks where they leaked stuff end up being sold on the dark net

Maybe they try something similar or they are straight up sending a fax to everyone

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah... they are probably going to sell it to the best bidding on the darknet... but because they said they are going public, I though they were releasing it to everyone.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

They really wanted $4.5mil for some data? Looks like Spez took a page outta this guy's book lmao

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Funny how my comment on lemmy is on a post about a massive hack on Reddit, because of their bullshit tactics. mlem seems to be like Apollo-ish.

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