Reddit, Inc.

May 11, 2023 1 min read
Reddit, Inc.

A hacker broke into a few of Reddit’s systems and managed to access some user data.

The attacker compromised a few of their employees’ accounts with their cloud and source code hosting providers.

It included some current email addresses and a 2007 database backup containing old salted and hashed passwords.

Attackers gained read-only access.

Source: https://www.databreaches.net/reddit-discloses-a-breach/

"id": "RED05581122",
"linkid": "reddit-com",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "08/2018",
"severity": "60",
"impact": "3",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with internal employee data leaks"

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