Reddit was hacked on Sunday after an employee fell for a convincing phishing attack, but the company says private user data wasn't accessed.
it was the victim of “a sophisticated and highly-targeted phishing attack.” The team became aware of the phishing campaign targeting its employees on February 5. Several employees received “plausible-sounding prompts” which sent them to a fake website that looked virtually identical to Reddit’s intranet gateway. After an employee entered their credentials into this fake site, Reddit was hacked by the attacker.
According to Reddit CTO Christopher Slowe, the hacker was able to gain access to their internal documents, code, dashboards, and business systems. There are no signs that they breached the site’s primary production systems, which is what makes Reddit run. More importantly, an investigation by Reddit’s security, engineering, and data science teams didn’t turn up any evidence that non-public user data was accessed during the breach. Therefore, all of our accounts, private messages, and passwords are likely safe.
Here’s how the team responded: “Soon after being phished, the affected employee self-reported, and the Security team responded quickly, removing the infiltrator’s access and commencing an internal investigation. Similar phishing attacks have been recently reported. We’re continuing to investigate and monitor the situation closely and working with our employees to fortify our security skills. As we all know, the human is often the weakest part of the security chain.
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