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.

  • @webdoodle@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    80gb isn’t really much data these days, so it’s likely summarized or collated data of some kind like user profiles.