The California Office of the Attorney General reported that Reddit, Inc. experienced a data breach on June 14, 2018. The breach involved compromised account credentials from 2007, specifically usernames and salted password hashes. The breach affected an unknown number of users, and the report was published on September 4, 2018.
Source: https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-139569
TPRM report: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/reddit-com
"id": "red239080425",
"linkid": "reddit-com",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "6/2007",
"severity": "25",
"impact": "1",
"explanation": "Attack without any consequences"
{'affected_entities': [{'customers_affected': 'Unknown number of users',
'industry': 'Social Media',
'location': 'California, USA',
'name': 'Reddit, Inc.',
'type': 'Company'}],
'data_breach': {'number_of_records_exposed': 'Unknown',
'type_of_data_compromised': ['usernames',
'salted password hashes']},
'date_detected': '2018-06-14',
'date_publicly_disclosed': '2018-09-04',
'description': 'The California Office of the Attorney General reported that '
'Reddit, Inc. experienced a data breach on June 14, 2018, '
'which involved compromised account credentials from 2007, '
'specifically usernames and salted password hashes. The breach '
'affected an unknown number of users, and the report was '
'published on September 4, 2018.',
'impact': {'data_compromised': ['usernames', 'salted password hashes']},
'references': [{'date_accessed': '2018-09-04',
'source': 'California Office of the Attorney General'}],
'title': 'Reddit Data Breach',
'type': 'Data Breach'}