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Reddit data breach overview:
- Who: Reddit has revealed that it suffered a data breach that allowed bad actors to steal documents and source code from the company’s internal business systems.
- Why: The data breach was caused by a phishing attack targeting Reddit employees that involved a fake landing page.
- Where: Reddit is used by consumers nationwide.
Reddit has revealed it suffered a data breach that allowed hackers to breach the company’s internal business systems and steal documents and source code.
The company said hackers conducted a phishing attack — involving a fake landing page — against its employees that aimed at stealing credentials and two-factor authentication tokens, reports Bleeping Computer.
One of Reddit’s employees reportedly fell victim to the phishing attack, allowing the bad actors to breach the company’s internal systems and compromise source code and data.
“After successfully obtaining a single employee’s credentials, the attacker gained access to some internal docs, code, as well as some internal dashboards and business systems,” Reddit said, in a security incident notice.
Reddit reassured its users that its investigation determined that users’ passwords and accounts were safe, and said there is no indication that the company’s primary production systems were breached.
Exposed data included limited information for company contacts, employees, advertisers, says Reddit
The exposed data, according to Reddit, was made up of limited contact information for company contacts and employees, in addition to some limited information involving advertisers.
“We have no evidence to suggest that any of your non-public data has been accessed, or that Reddit’s information has been published or distributed online,” the company said.
Reddit said its security team “responded quickly” to the data breach by removing the hackers access to its internal business systems and “commencing an internal investigation.”
The company further assured its users that it would be continuing to “investigate and monitor the situation closely,” and that it is working with its employees to “fortify our security skills.”
“Our goal is to fully understand and prevent future incidents of this nature, and we will use this post to provide any additional updates as we learn and can share more,” Reddit said.
Earlier this month, Google cell network provider Google Fi confirmed that a data breach it believes is connected to a recent T-Mobile data breach led to the unintended exposure of customer data.
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Please add me. I use Reddit all the time.
Oh dear, I just filed for a class action with T-Mobile after learning that I am basically forced to call for customer service due to an “announcement’ on my account page stating a data breach, but claiming NO personal information was leaked. Is that a lie? I was also told by the customer service rep that I am blocked from making any changes online due to a data breach from a year and a half ago?? What is going on? I now see the other comments and realize that maybe that is why I randomly cannot get onto google search, I get a ‘broken page’ error. I have to restart my computer and sometimes my phone (both apple). Please add me, thanks.
My wife and I keep getting reddit emails, and our phones just pop up with a circle that looks like a red and white like a dart board and we have had nothing but problems with our phones and I believe our data on our phones is being stolen cause I always have to power it off and restart it I have and been with people when I’m not on the phone and I hear music and I’m not even touching my phone my wife and It happens constantly to us this isn’t the first time this has happened to us
My bank acct had charges from someone who withdrawn $380 dollar.. T-mobile customer here..
I’ve had to have my PayPal prepaid, my PayPal cash card debit, Venmo, and other accounts frozen and new cards issued more then 4 times in just a few weeks!! I’ve received multiple fraudulent charges and have lost quite a bit.
Yes I was totally affected by this as well as the t mobile Data breach this had me where my checking account got closed for someone getting my information and then deposited a 1800.00 dollar check my account which I had no clue until I called Citi Bank and they no longer would talk to me cause they said I didn’t deposit it so they couldn’t talk to me
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