Reddit has been the target of a cyberattack, and hackers have threatened to reveal sensitive information unless the company pays a demanded ransom and drops its contentious API fee increases.
The BlackCat ransomware group, also known as ALPHV, claims to have stolen 80 gigabytes of compressed data from Reddit during a February system hack in a post on its dark web leak website.
Gina Antonini, a Reddit spokesperson, declined to respond to TechCrunch’s inquiries but acknowledged that BlackCat’s accusations are related to a cyber incident that Reddit acknowledged on February 9. At the time, Christopher Slowe, or KeyserSosa, the CTO of Reddit, claimed that hackers had gained access to corporate papers and employee data read more Hackers threaten to leak 80GB of confidential data stolen from Reddit.
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