One of the world’s largest internet platforms and has been in our lives for years. reddit, this time with a hacker incident on the agenda.
You know, Reddit is not falling off the agenda these days. So what exactly is behind this? To answer this question in detail here We have included it in our article. What brought the platform to the fore now was a hacking incident that happened before. As it turns out today ALPHV also known as BlackCat ransomware (Ransomware) gang of a “dark web” via post on site claimed to have stolen 80GB of data from Reddit during the attack on the company’s systems in February. Hackers removed this 80 GB of data from the platform in order not to publish it. 4.5 million dollars money and very responsive API asks him to abandon his decision. BlackCat, stating that it will delete the data after the payment and API decision, Of course, these demands will definitely not be met.. No company is paying or negotiating with hackers in such cases, no matter what. (This is the most correct and logical step). Reddit has been getting a lot of backlash lately, and it’s behind it. basically, there is an API-centered change. Due to this change, most of the third-party Reddit applications are no longer available. For this reason, very seriously protested and Making over 7,000 subreddits private after that “for a while” obsolete platform, co-founder and CEO of latest Reddit Steve Huffman with the statements made by had sounded.
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Posting an internal message to employees Huffmanconsiders the current protests to be temporary. Stating that these situations do not cause any financial damage to the platform for now, the CEO said, “I’m sorry to say this, but please be careful when wearing clothes with the Reddit logo in public. Some people are really upset and we don’t want you to be the object of their frustration.” It also gives an interesting message. He also stated that they are holding talks with some third-party application developers to keep them open. Steve Huffman instead of calming the environment with these statements, it has attracted even more reaction. The CEO, who does not want to go back from the step they have taken because he finds the data of Reddit very valuable, is in the process for now.too much transient noise”, this pisses users off even more.