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

https://www.databreaches.net/blackcat-claims-they-hacked-reddit-and-will-leak-the-data/

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If this does not include media that a lot of data

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If it’s only text, it’s four times as big as the entirety of English Wikipedia.

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This is why I hate when articles mention the size of the data - that rarely actually matters. What matters is what makes up the data - 80GB is one BluRay, or the entirety of English Wikipedia’s text.

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Well the size is somewhat important.

It gives a glimpse into what could have been stolen.

But I agree it’s not like 80GB of hack is automatically worse than 20GB of hack if it’s stolen source code or payment information or similar.

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Didn’t know BluRays could be that large, I’ve only heard of them going up to 25 or 50. Any more info on this?

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BDXL disks have three layers and can hold roughly ~100GB. Mainly used for 4K movies.

https://www.verbatim.com/subcat/optical-media/blu-ray/

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I remember seeing a Atmos Dolby Vision rip. 125GB

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It’s internal stuff, so yeah 80gb could be quite damning, the group claims it shows things reddit doesn’t want people to see.

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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.

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