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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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[-] drmoose@lemmy.world 75 points 1 year ago

Remember when reddit was hip enough to have a canary system and now they don't even disclose hacks anymore. It's not the same platform. Good riddance.

[-] Isaac95@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago
[-] drmoose@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Good point. Didn't notice that detail in the linked articles.

[-] FrankTheHealer@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

God I remember reading about Reddit's warrant canary being taken down.

I remember thinking that it was no big deal and it will always be the same.

How wrong and naive I was lol

[-] TheYang@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

it's so weird to me that dead canarys are not half as big a thing as I'd expect them to be
For example, it's been close to a decade since Apples Warrant Canary died, and still people consider Apple trustworthy with their data...

[-] JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I wonder if it's not so much that people don't care but rather that every big tech company will inevitably receive such warrants. Even if you don't use those services, most devices by default use the (probably backdoor-ed) NIST ECC algorithms.

[-] DocMcStuffin@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago

Sounds like reddit is having a bad year.

sips coffee

Oh well. How's everyone's Sunday? I'm making pulled pork sliders tonight.

[-] Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Pad Thai with zucchini, squash, and cilantro from my garden. Eggs are from my chickens. Everything else super fresh from a local farmers market.

Spez did a little FAFO dance.

[-] Aztech@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Mexican discada tacos over here

[-] unfazedbeaver@lemmy.one 8 points 1 year ago

Maybe some tasty rice. I want to get an instantpot; never had one before but I have heard they are amazing

[-] aspirate2959@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Seconding Corran.

I use mine to cook dog food every week (poor guy is allergic to damn near everything). Often cooks a couple family meals during the week, too. Great labor saver

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[-] aspirate2959@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Smash burgers on the new flattop I just finished seasoning.

Pulled pork sliders sounds like a great plan for an upcoming weekend

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Haven't decided.

Maybe ziti with meat balls and marinara, or some bratwurst with potatoes.

[-] InversedReality@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I’m making burritos with rice, refried beans that I forgot were homemade, guacamole (with onions this time), and some Beyond ground beef seasoned with the spices in the cabinet that I like but can’t name.

[-] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I spent the day playing Subnautica on my Switch, cuddling with my dog, and trying to recover from dehydration caused by the wicked sunburn I got yesterday. Finally feeling better internally. My skin is killing me tho. I can't even apply aloe because my burn is on my back and I can't reach it. Gotta love living alone lol.

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[-] konalt@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Had some pasta with old sausages from the freezer earlier. Surprisingly wasn't that bad.

[-] WildfireFailure@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

I did laundry at my parents place with my wife. She's scared of my mom so we did it while they were out of town.

Tried a really good Italian place with the wife afterward was a good date.

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[-] kitsuneofinari@yiffit.net 41 points 1 year ago
[-] Evono@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago

Great , we need all the more Bad news spreading about reddit.

they did the entire stunt to open for IPO likely this will screw them.

[-] NewEnglandBlueberry@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

If that includes user data (such as emails, phone #s, social media accounts, etc.) that's bad news for all of us who have or had accounts with them.

[-] lowleveldata@programming.dev 19 points 1 year ago

Why would reddit have your phone #s, social media accounts, etc?

[-] NewEnglandBlueberry@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They're sign up options. You can sign up with Google, Apple, email and they ask users for their phone number for some reason as well iirc.

[-] waigl@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Good thing I never gave reddit any of those, despite their continued nagging over the years...

[-] eee@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

the whole point of reddit is that it doesn't have any of my user data, apart from what they can scrape from my browser such as IP address and browser fingerprint(s).

[-] SillyJester@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 year ago

80GB, even zipped, doesn't sound like a lot considering the size of Reddit... or am I wrong about it?

[-] GlitzyArmrest@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] TechnoBabble@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] konalt@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

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?

[-] LUHG_HANI@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I remember seeing a Atmos Dolby Vision rip. 125GB

[-] konalt@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
[-] GlitzyArmrest@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

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

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

[-] SomethingBurger@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

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

[-] SillyJester@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Thank you for correcting me!

[-] hyper@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

If this does not include media that a lot of data

[-] jerrimu@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

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

[-] thayer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] xc2215x@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

The crumbling of Reddit continues.

[-] Oxff@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

No matter the outcome, it's one hell of a ride.

[-] deepdive@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Does anyone know where they are going to leak that data to the public? A torrent? DL? I2P?

[-] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Only on their App i bet

[-] KingYoloHD@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Idk how this one is working, but didn't many hacker attacks where they leaked stuff end up being sold on the dark net

Maybe they try something similar or they are straight up sending a fax to everyone

[-] deepdive@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah... they are probably going to sell it to the best bidding on the darknet... but because they said they are going public, I though they were releasing it to everyone.

[-] Relisui@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago
[-] eee@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago
[-] Pixlbabble@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

[-] d4rknusw1ld@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Funny how my comment on lemmy is on a post about a massive hack on Reddit, because of their bullshit tactics. mlem seems to be like Apollo-ish.

[-] STUPIDVIPGUY@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 year ago

They really wanted $4.5mil for some data? Looks like Spez took a page outta this guy's book lmao

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