Security News > 2023 > February > Reddit admits it was hacked and data stolen, says “Don’t panic”
Popular social media site Reddit - "Orange Usenet with ads", as we've somewhat ungraciously heard it described - is the latest well-known web property to suffer a data breach in which its own source code was stolen.
Reddit systems were hacked as a result of a sophisticated and highly-targeted phishing attack.
In addition to the mostly-harmless-sounding "Docs" and "Code" listed above, Reddit has admitted that information about past and present employees and "Contacts" was stolen, along with information about advertising customers.
Reddit hasn't stated publicly what sort of data fields were included in the stolen information, merely that the breach was "Limited".
Signed-up users of the Reddit service, it seems - Redditors, as they as known - can stand down from Blue Alert, with Reddit saying that its investigation so far shows no indication that what it calls "Non-public data" was accessed by the cybercriminals.
As mentoined earlier, the Reddit systems themselves - the operating systems, code and networks that run the Reddit services you interact with, whether as a user or a visitor - don't seem to have been breached.