Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2018-08-01 00:00:00
Affected organization: Reddit
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Information
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server,Exploitation of Data in Transit
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Reddit discloses a breach of its systems that compromised user data including some current email addresses and salted and hashed passwords from a 2007 database backup. The attacker gained access to several employee accounts via SMS intercept between June 14 and June 18.