Hackers who say they stole Reddit data demand the platform reverses its API pricing policy and pay $4.5 million ransom it previously asked for
Hackers are threatening to publicly release 80 GB of Reddit data they say they have stolen.It said at the time that"the attacker sent out plausible-sounding prompts pointing employees to a website that cloned the behavior of our intranet gateway."screenshot shared on Twitter
by cybersecurity analyst Dominic Alvieri. The group said they first contacted Reddit in April, asking for $4.5 million to delete the data. Last week, the hackers followed up by continuing to demand the money and additionally asking Reddit to reverse its planned API pricing changes, perReddit said in its February post there was no evidence the hackers had accessed user data that wasn't already public. There had been limited exposure of contact information for some of its past and present employees, it added.
Representatives for Reddit did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment, made outside normal working hours. The planned API pricing changes have proved controversial, sparking protests and blackouts across the site. The main protest took place on Monday and Tuesday last week when almost 3,500 subreddits went dark for a
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