cross-posted from: https://chat.maiion.com/post/3401
Reddit’s week appears to have gone from bad to worse, as AlphV (aka BlackCat) has claimed that operators broke into Reddit’s servers on February 5, 2023, and took 80 GB of zipped data. . Furthermore, Reddit has been contacted by BlackCat, once on April 13 and again on June 16, with no response and no attempt to find out what was taken. Following recent fallout from the subreddit blackouts, and the controversial comments from CEO Steve Huffman, Reddit has been having a tough time in the eyes of its users who have been reportedly leaving the platform and setting up alternatives on the fediverse (such as Lemmy or kbin), used by the Twitter alternative Mastodon.
https://www.databreaches.net/blackcat-claims-they-hacked-reddit-and-will-leak-the-data/
Remember when reddit was hip enough to have a canary system and now they don’t even disclose hacks anymore. It’s not the same platform. Good riddance.
I mean, to be fair they disclosed it immediately. https://www.redditinc.com/blog/sharing-our-findings-around-a-data-security-incident
Good point. Didn’t notice that detail in the linked articles.
God I remember reading about Reddit’s warrant canary being taken down.
I remember thinking that it was no big deal and it will always be the same.
How wrong and naive I was lol
it’s so weird to me that dead canarys are not half as big a thing as I’d expect them to be
For example, it’s been close to a decade since Apples Warrant Canary died, and still people consider Apple trustworthy with their data…I wonder if it’s not so much that people don’t care but rather that every big tech company will inevitably receive such warrants. Even if you don’t use those services, most devices by default use the (probably backdoor-ed) NIST ECC algorithms.
Sounds like reddit is having a bad year.
sips coffee
Oh well. How’s everyone’s Sunday? I’m making pulled pork sliders tonight.
Pad Thai with zucchini, squash, and cilantro from my garden. Eggs are from my chickens. Everything else super fresh from a local farmers market.
Spez did a little FAFO dance.
Mexican discada tacos over here
Maybe some tasty rice. I want to get an instantpot; never had one before but I have heard they are amazing
You’ll love it! This is a great sample of recipes.
https://www.tasteofhome.com/collection/recipes-you-can-make-in-your-instant-pot/
Seconding Corran.
I use mine to cook dog food every week (poor guy is allergic to damn near everything). Often cooks a couple family meals during the week, too. Great labor saver
So good that [https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-14/pyrex-instant-pot-maker-seeks-bankruptcy-protection/102480242](the company went bust), partly because people weren’t replacing them frequently enough.
Haven’t decided.
Maybe ziti with meat balls and marinara, or some bratwurst with potatoes.
Smash burgers on the new flattop I just finished seasoning.
Pulled pork sliders sounds like a great plan for an upcoming weekend
I spent the day playing Subnautica on my Switch, cuddling with my dog, and trying to recover from dehydration caused by the wicked sunburn I got yesterday. Finally feeling better internally. My skin is killing me tho. I can’t even apply aloe because my burn is on my back and I can’t reach it. Gotta love living alone lol.
what if you were to lay down plastic wrap on the floor, spred a puddle of aloe vera gel on top and then lie down on top of the puddle?
I’m making burritos with rice, refried beans that I forgot were homemade, guacamole (with onions this time), and some Beyond ground beef seasoned with the spices in the cabinet that I like but can’t name.
Had some pasta with old sausages from the freezer earlier. Surprisingly wasn’t that bad.
I did laundry at my parents place with my wife. She’s scared of my mom so we did it while they were out of town.
Tried a really good Italian place with the wife afterward was a good date.
Im currently deep in Unix books
Who is Unix books, and where did you meet her?
The library
Great , we need all the more Bad news spreading about reddit.
they did the entire stunt to open for IPO likely this will screw them.
If that includes user data (such as emails, phone #s, social media accounts, etc.) that’s bad news for all of us who have or had accounts with them.
Why would reddit have your phone #s, social media accounts, etc?
Adbux
They’re sign up options. You can sign up with Google, Apple, email and they ask users for their phone number for some reason as well iirc.
I’m not nearly techy enough to discuss this in detail, but I thought that reddit itself doesn’t really see that data (google password), thought it was an API that validated the log in. I’d be very happy to be corrected if wrong, however.
Yes, that’s true for your Google password, but google does share your name, email and profile picture with the platform and “Third-party apps or services may use your email address, name, and profile picture in other ways as described in their privacy policy or elsewhere”. I’m not sure what Apple sign-in shares, but they probably give your email and name at a minimum.
Good thing I never gave reddit any of those, despite their continued nagging over the years…
the whole point of reddit is that it doesn’t have any of my user data, apart from what they can scrape from my browser such as IP address and browser fingerprint(s).
The crumbling of Reddit continues.
80GB, even zipped, doesn’t sound like a lot considering the size of Reddit… or am I wrong about it?
This is why I hate when articles mention the size of the data - that rarely actually matters. What matters is what makes up the data - 80GB is one BluRay, or the entirety of English Wikipedia’s text.
Well the size is somewhat important.
It gives a glimpse into what could have been stolen.
But I agree it’s not like 80GB of hack is automatically worse than 20GB of hack if it’s stolen source code or payment information or similar.
Didn’t know BluRays could be that large, I’ve only heard of them going up to 25 or 50. Any more info on this?
I remember seeing a Atmos Dolby Vision rip. 125GB
Nice, TIL.
BDXL disks have three layers and can hold roughly ~100GB. Mainly used for 4K movies.
If it’s only text, it’s four times as big as the entirety of English Wikipedia.
Thank you for correcting me!
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If this does not include media that a lot of data
It’s internal stuff, so yeah 80gb could be quite damning, the group claims it shows things reddit doesn’t want people to see.
A snapshot of all of reddit’s public text posts up to March 2023 runs about 38GB compressed (zstd) on archive.org. Decompressed, it’s well over 300GB.
An internal zstd of 80GB may contain private messages as well or other morsels.
Does anyone know where they are going to leak that data to the public? A torrent? DL? I2P?
Only on their App i bet
Idk how this one is working, but didn’t many hacker attacks where they leaked stuff end up being sold on the dark net
Maybe they try something similar or they are straight up sending a fax to everyone
Yeah… they are probably going to sell it to the best bidding on the darknet… but because they said they are going public, I though they were releasing it to everyone.
No matter the outcome, it’s one hell of a ride.
Funny how my comment on lemmy is on a post about a massive hack on Reddit, because of their bullshit tactics. mlem seems to be like Apollo-ish.
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
They really wanted $4.5mil for some data? Looks like Spez took a page outta this guy’s book lmao
