![]() Some methods are easier to decrypt than others, but the company is taking no chances, writing in an email to affected users that “we’re messaging you because your Reddit account credentials were among the data that was accessed” and that “if there’s a chance the credentials relate to your current password, we’ll prompt you to reset the password on your Reddit account.” What Reddit didn’t detail is what method was used to encrypt the passwords. The former consists of “very early Reddit user data” from Reddit’s launch in 2005 through May 2007 and included usernames, email addresses, posts, private messages and salted hashed passwords, while the latter consisted of account names and email addresses. ![]() It saw the hacker obtain a 2007 database backup and email digests sent by Reddit in June. The hack, revealed today, took place between June 14 and 18. ![]() by intercepting SMS text messages, used by employees for two-factor authentication, to gain access to some backend systems. A hacker has managed to steal historical account data from Reddit Inc. ![]()
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