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Crackers demand $4.5 million ransom and API pricing changes from Reddit (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago by starman@programming.dev to c/news@beehaw.org

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[–] boff@lemmy.one 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Has the hacker group given any proof that they actually have anything? All of the articles I've read only say the hackers have claimed to have 80GB of data.

[–] midnight@lemmy.one 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been trying to find this out as well. I haven't found anything that even claims they've shown Reddit any legitimate data. Seems like a "trust me bro, we have what we say we have" situation

[–] AkumaFoxwell@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Or they left something on reddits servers so reddit will know.