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shish_mish @lemmy.world

2y ago

Reddit claimed to have been hacked by BlackCat, and it has threatened to leak the data

Reddit claimed to have been hacked by BlackCat, and it has threatened to leak the data

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2y ago

Neowin mentioned Lemmy, Kbin, and Mastodon in their Reddit coverage today

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

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2y ago

Reddit claimed to have been hacked by BlackCat, and it has threatened to leak the data

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

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maiion @chat.maiion.com

2y ago

Reddit claimed to have been hacked by BlackCat, and it has threatened to leak the data

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

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This is not the right community for this post.
See this for clarification.
Better suited for e.g., reddit@lemmy.ml (but I think it's already posted there).
- Sorry about that,I am still learning my way around the federated universe :)
  
  Don't worry about it. A lot of us, me included, are still trying to figure it out.
  
  This is !lemmyworld, which you can think of like the equivalent of a subreddit, so posts in here should be related to lemmy.world itself. :)
Misleading title? "Reddit claimed..", no, others claimed, reddit has not commented
- It's not misleading it's just written in a passive voice.
  If you read the whole sentence it's fairly clear that BlackCat is the subject that is doing the claiming. There's room for making it more clear but it's not misleading as written.
  
  Yeah, I wouldn't call it misleading, but it's poorly written for sure. Active voice would be clearer and more succinct, e.g. "BlackCat claims to have hacked Reddit, threatens to leak data"
- Can be read as either "Reddit has claimed" or "Reddit was claimed", but "and it has threatened" clarifies it is not the former.
How fun that they were going to wait for the IPO before leaking the data but decided now was a better opportunity, and that they’ve added rolling back the API pricing change to their ransom demands.
- I couldn't support any ransom, but damn, they been throwing bs reasons; I'd find it poetic if bs bite them back
Leak what data? 80GB of cat reposts? TikTok videos? Unless it’s pictures of spez fucking farm animals (real ones, not the memes and AI versions people post) it’s not going to matter. Actually, scratch that - it still won’t matter.
I doubt they actually have been. I suspect this is the excuse they're going to use to enforce normalcy t oreturn. 'Oh all those subs? that was a psyop from blackcat. We de-platformed their mods to ensure that any influince is gone.'
tips tinfoil hat
But seriously. paranoia is a bullshit disease.
I don’t like what reddit is doing with the API stuff but definitely don’t support hackers blackmailing reddit.
- 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.
  The hack happened before the api thing.
  
  It's kind of hilarious that they're just ignoring them, tbh.
I think this does more good for reddit than bad, makes the community look unhinged
- Sure but unhinged users don't look good to investors. Imagine if a place like 4chan tried to IPO?
Oh no, the “hacker” brought all the subs back up and made me the mod of all of them. Too bad

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