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BlackCat/ALPHV Ransomware Gang is about to drop files they took from Reddit internal systems.
treesmokah
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The Reddit Files
6/17/2023, 9:28:19 PM
Operators broke into Reddit on February 5, 2023, and took 80 gigabytes (zipped) of data. Reddit was emailed twice by operators, once on April 13 and one again on June 16.
There was no attempt to find out what we took.
This is again another instance of Steve Huffman undermining his own agenda. He makes an effort to appear tough, but we are all aware of what happens to individuals like him when businesses go public. such as Adam Neumann of WeWork.
I told them in my first email that I would wait for their IPO to come along. But this seems like the perfect opportunity! We are very confident that Reddit will not pay any money for their data. But I am very happy to know that the public will be able to read about all the statistics they track about their users and all the interesting confidential data we took. Did you know they also silently censor users? Along with artifacts from their GitHub!
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.
Pass on the torch, Spez, you're no longer cut out for this kind of work.
A Mistake repeated more than once is a decision. - Paulo Coelho
News outlets that reported on initial breach(data was not disclosed at the time);
https://libreddit.tiekoetter.com/r/reddit/comments/10y427y/we_had_a_security_incident_heres_what_we_know/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2023/02/10/reddit-confirms-it-was-hacked-recommends-users-set-up-2fa/
https://www.xda-developers.com/reddit-security-breach-2023/
https://news.yahoo.com/reddit-says-hacked-dont-worry-001000431.html
Comments
"Did you know they also silently censor users?"
Yes, I think everyone have been aware of shadow banning for years
Interested in wordlists, and I will be shocked if it had no political bias.
I'd be shocked if they used simple word lists
More like trained models
Word lists could easily censor people quoting etc
model trained on /pol/
Reddit hackers threaten to leak data stolen in February breach
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/blackcat-ransomware-gang-behind-reddit-breach-from-february/ (archive)
Surprised it took this long
No surprise, there is a war going on reddit and that was a time-bomb perfect for the occasion.
Why @treesmokah is banned?
Yea, why that bozo banned again? @Arkas
Because of the messages in https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/186981/a-personal-message-to-lowendtalk-members-from-emg I think.
Banned again? He used to share some useful stuff too.
All bans should require a mod post to confirm they did it and for how long. It's annoying the lack of ban clarity.