Security News > 2023 > June > Reddit hackers threaten to leak data stolen in February breach

The BlackCat ransomware gang is behind a February cyberattack on Reddit, where the threat actors claim to have stolen 80GB of data from the company.

On February 9th, Reddit disclosed that its systems were hacked on February 5th after an employee fell victim to a phishing attack.

During the attack on Riot, the threat actors demanded $10 million not to leak the stolen data.

In a "Reddit Files" post on the gang's data leak site, the threat actors claim to have stolen 80 GB of compressed data from the company during the attack and now plan on leaking the data.

While the threat actors behind the Western Digital attack initially claimed not to have a name, screenshots of the stolen data were leaked on the ALPHV data leak site, with the threat actors taunting the company about the attack.

Western Digital sent data breach notifications in May, warning online store customers that their data was stolen during the attack.

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