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.databreaches.net/blackcat-claims-they-hacked-reddit-and-will-leak-the-data/
Sounds like reddit is having a bad year.
sips coffee
Oh well. How’s everyone’s Sunday? I’m making pulled pork sliders tonight.
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.
Im currently deep in Unix books
Who is Unix books, and where did you meet her?
The library
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.
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.
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?
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.
I mean, to be fair they disclosed it immediately. https://www.redditinc.com/blog/sharing-our-findings-around-a-data-security-incident
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
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…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.
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.
They really wanted $4.5mil for some data? Looks like Spez took a page outta this guy’s book lmao
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.
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.
80GB, even zipped, doesn’t sound like a lot considering the size of Reddit… or am I wrong about it?
A snapshot of all of reddit’s public text posts up to March 2023 runs about 38GB compressed (zstd) on archive.org. Decompressed, it’s well over 300GB.
An internal zstd of 80GB may contain private messages as well or other morsels.
