Reddit users who want changes to the company’s API pricing have found unlikely allies in a group of hackers.
Hackers from the BlackCat ransomware gang are threatening to release stolen Reddit data they obtained in February if the company doesn’t cave to protestor demands.
Reddit confirmed that a hack occurred four months ago and that the latest post is related to that incident. The protest was sparked after Reddit announced in April that it would begin charging for application programming interface, with third-party developers having to pay 24 cents per 1,000 API requests. The system can generate 10 requests per second per user.
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