Hackers threaten to leak stolen Reddit data if company doesn't pay US$4.5 million
Hackers from the BlackCat ransomware gang, also known as ALPHV, are threatening to leak 80 gigabytes of confidential data from Reddit that they claim to have stolen during a February breach, according to a post from the group on the dark web, which was rev...
If you lie down with
dogsleftists, you'll get up withfleashackers.Reddit jannies got themselves some hackers? They have more power than I thought.
it's a lot more complicated than this.
many of them are literal jannies, unpaid losers duped into being useful idiots, wasting their lives away censoring shitposts from a porn forum (reddit's leaked IPO docs admitted the site traffic is majority porn).
but many of them are more insidious than that. in 2016 after trump won, political action groups started a coalition to take over mod roles on practically all social media. enter the reddit powermods. they have mod roles on over 90% of the top 10k subs, and 60%+ of the top 100k. this was exposed in the banout2018 scandal.
the reason why any of this is a controversy at all is because the powermods use a an abusive API-based censorship tool to keep an iron grip over practically all site content. and they make millions off this every single month. all of the whining about blind people apps and the third party app being better than the dogshit official reddit app... all of that is a distraction. it's entirely about the censorship tool not qualifying for the "moderation tool" discount. reddit doesn't want to admit that extremists took over their site, and the extremists don't want to admit they're making millions. and that's why there's this stupid fucking standoff.
More like most hackers are leftists and leftists are easily manipulated to support "the current thing".
They seem to be blackmailers who are just talking about the current issue to drum up interest and support.
The hack happened in February, the jannies don't have anything to do with it.
It’s a bait and a fake. All they got were data that Reddit was force to give as part of EU laws. Hackers really wouldn’t care about the API shit.
what are the chances that data includes cp?
It's reddit, they have all kinds of shit. Probability is very high.
When you can say “child porn isn’t the worst thing they’ve done” and I can actually agree with you… you know someone done fucked up.
of course it includes cp. reddit's private placement memo (investment doc) got leaked in 2018, and the majority of the site traffic is porn. it's why they've been trying and failing to IPO since 2016, and they keep needing cash injections to keep it going. if they ban porn, they will fall from the top10 sites on the internet, probably still lucky if they're in the top1000.
they also had hired a pro-pedophilia activist who tried multiple times to become a politician. other admins got outed as pro-pedophilia too.
IIRC Spez was a mod of a subreddit dedicated to pictures of dead children.
In the earlier days of reddit you could invite someone to be a mod and they would show up as an actual mod unless they canceled. Thats how spez ended up being a mod of r/jailbait for some time.
The kids featured on r/jailbait were too old for Spez.
Given the number of troons on that site the odds are 100%,
I hope they leak it
Im guessing this is twitter files stuff. What else on reddit would be private?
Pro-humans FTW.