Reddit’s going through a little turbulence right now, with side-wide protests against controversial changes to the company’s API policies. And now Reddit has to contend with hackers allegedly holding 80GB of confidential data to ransom. Though the two events are tangibly related.
The threat has come from the ransomware hackers BlackCat, sometimes known as ALPHV, which claims to have stolen 80GB of confidential data from Reddit during a breach back in February. The group is demanding Reddit hand over $4.5 million and reverse the controversial API changes that are effectively forcing third-party Reddit clients to shut down.
