So they "broke into Reddit" back in February and contacted Reddit in April. After Reddit didn't react they contacted them again a few days ago at this very opportunistic time.

They never specified exactly what kind of data they stole, nor did they prove it by providing samples.

For all we know this story could be entirely made up and they actually have nothing.

But even if they have something, them trying to come across as the good guys in this is so weird to me. No, you're not the good guys. You are criminals.

Is it weird that I kind of want both groups to lose out here?

I want the API changes reverted as much as any other Reddit refugees here, but I can't stand behind this kind of malfeasant extortion.

Not only is it blatantly obvious they're using the API change rhetoric as a means of irritating Reddit into giving them their hush money, it also avts towards delegitimising all protest efforts made by the Subreddits thus far

Fuck spez, but this is not the way. Why even ask for money if they don’t expect Reddit to pay? That cheapens their cause.

Ransomware operators are scum and should not be trusted, let alone paid.

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Put up or shut up

80gb? That isn't too much but guess if it's internal information and docs could be damaging to a public offering.

If it hurts the IPO, I'm all for it. My data on reddit is worthless anyway...

lol, fuck reddit, but do they expect us to cheer for them when they're holding user data hostage? They can fuck right off too.

Any proof they have what they say they have? If they can't, at the very least, make that bit public, then imma have to call it a bluff.

Only $4.5 million? That amount seems kind of low if the data they have is as valuable as they say.

Can you share the onion link here

Ooh ThE rEdDiT fIlEs I can only hope it's more interesting than the twitter files

>reddit fucks over users

>hackers fuck over users

why do this?

Nah you're not going to catch me rooting for a ransomware attacker

Is there any way to validate these claims?

Is there any information on what kind of data they stole? It’s a public forum with a lot of public data, it makes no sense that they negotiate about data that is already public.

lol, ok. i mean, even if this is true (which, eh, maybe it is), I'm not really sure it's worth what they're asking for it. if this threat is genuine, and they follow through, it will certainly be publically embarrassing for spez at a really bad time. but there's zero chance he's going to give in to their demands.

i don't expect the data dump would contain anything particularly juicy, or these demands would have been made months ago. it's just that it would be embarrassing for reddit (and spez) if it happened, particularly right now.