“Based on several days of initial investigation by security, engineering, and data science (and friends!), 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 firm said. But passwords and credit card information were allegedly not accessed. Reddit admitted that the grabbed data included a few details about the company’s advertisers. The company learned of the compromise when the said employee self-reported the incident to the security team. This site attempted to steal employees' credentials and two-factor authentication tokens.Īfter one worker fell victim to the attack, the threat actor was able to breach internal Reddit systems. ![]() They gained access to some internal documents, code, and some internal business systems,” the company said in a thread posted to the official r/reddit community on Thursday.Īccording to Reddit, hackers used a phishing lure targeting the firm’s employees with a landing page impersonating its intranet site. ![]() “On Sunday night (Pacific time), Reddit systems were hacked as a result of a sophisticated and highly-targeted phishing attack. It said user information was not impacted and remains safe – so far. Unlike many other recent targets, Reddit, a popular social media site, was quick to disclose some company data was stolen in a phishing incident.
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