Thursday 2 August 2018

Reddit Users Hit By Huge Hack And Have Their Details Stollen.

A sign hangs on the door of an office at
Reddit headquarters in San Francisco, California April 15, 2014
( REUTERS/Robert Galbraith )

Anyone potentially affected is being urged to take action.

Reddit users have had their details stolen after a major cyber attack on the firm.

A hacker has broken into a few of its systems and taken user data from them, it said. That included current email addresses and a 2007 database that contained old passwords.

"Although this was a serious attack, the attacker did not gain write access to Reddit systems; they gained read-only access to some systems that contained backup data, source code and other logs," Reddit's founding engineer Christopher Slowe wrote.



By Andrew Griffin.
Full story at The Independent.



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