I don’t like what reddit is doing with the API stuff but definitely don’t support hackers blackmailing reddit.
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.
The hack happened before the api thing.
Misleading title? “Reddit claimed…”, no, others claimed, reddit has not commented
It’s not misleading it’s just written in a passive voice.
If you read the whole sentence it’s fairly clear that BlackCat is the subject that is doing the claiming. There’s room for making it more clear but it’s not misleading as written.
Yeah, I wouldn’t call it misleading, but it’s poorly written for sure. Active voice would be clearer and more succinct, e.g. “BlackCat claims to have hacked Reddit, threatens to leak data”
This is not the right community for this post.
Better suited for e.g., reddit@lemmy.ml (but I think it’s already posted there).
Sorry about that,I am still learning my way around the federated universe :)
How fun that they were going to wait for the IPO before leaking the data but decided now was a better opportunity, and that they’ve added rolling back the API pricing change to their ransom demands.
