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Reddit is investigating a major outage blocking users worldwide from accessing the social network's websites and mobile apps. Mobile users also report seeing an "Error: Choose failed Missing field 'user id'" error or an outage icon with the Reddit alien logo on the mobile app.
It was a relatively quiet week regarding ransomware news, with the BlackCat ransomware gang extorting Reddit and the ongoing MOVEit Transfer data breaches being the main focus. In an update on the BlackCat data leak site, the threat actors claim they stole 80 GB of compressed data during the attack and now plan on leaking the data after they say Reddit ignored a $4.5 million ransom demand.
Reddit this week confirmed ransomware gang BlackCat, aka AlphaV, broke into its corporate systems in February. The BlackCat crooks claimed they stole 80GB of data during the intrusion and emailed Reddit about the break-in twice, once on April 13 and a second time on June 16.
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.
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.
Reddit is investigating a worldwide outage that prevents users from accessing the social network's website on mobile apps. Users are reporting being automatically logged out when opening the mobile app and seeing several types of content loading errors, including "No Internet," "Sorry, please try again later," and "Let's try that again."
Reddit is investigating a major outage that is blocking users worldwide from accessing the social network's website and mobile apps. According to its official status page, Reddit confirmed that its website and apps are currently down, and its engineers looking into the root cause of this outage.
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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.