Reddit: hacked the service, change passwords

That's it announced that its systems were breached in mid-June 2018. H states that email addresses υ των περισσότερων χρηστών της υπηρεσίας έχουν υποκλαπεί καθώς και μερικοί από τους κωδικούς πρόσβασης από ένα παλιό data security 11 years ago.Reddit

According to Reddit, the hack took place between June 14 and June 18 when a hacker managed to break accounts of many employees using 2FA authentication via SMS.
The attacker managed to gain access to old forgotten salted passwords from a backup of the 2007 database and the current Reddit user emails.

Reddit confirmed that the e-mail addresses found in the hacker's hands were through some logs stored on of between 3 and 17 June 2018.

The company also reports that the hacker has managed to intercept the Reddit source code, internal logs and configuration files.

Read the official announcement, and change passwords immediately.

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