Further to Reddit's recent woes since the announcement of the API pricing change, claims have surfaced that it has suffered a data breach at the hands of BlackCat , with 80GB of zipped data taken.
It's not misleading it's just written in a passive voice.
If you read the whole sentence it's fairly clear that BlackCat is the subject that is doing the claiming. There's room for making it more clear but it's not misleading as written.
Yeah, I wouldn't call it misleading, but it's poorly written for sure. Active voice would be clearer and more succinct, e.g. "BlackCat claims to have hacked Reddit, threatens to leak data"
How fun that they were going to wait for the IPO before leaking the data but decided now was a better opportunity, and that they’ve added rolling back the API pricing change to their ransom demands.
Leak what data? 80GB of cat reposts? TikTok videos? Unless it’s pictures of spez fucking farm animals (real ones, not the memes and AI versions people post) it’s not going to matter. Actually, scratch that - it still won’t matter.
I doubt they actually have been. I suspect this is the excuse they're going to use to enforce normalcy t oreturn. 'Oh all those subs? that was a psyop from blackcat. We de-platformed their mods to ensure that any influince is gone.'
tips tinfoil hat
But seriously. paranoia is a bullshit disease.
Reddit's week appears to have gone from bad to worse, as AlphV (aka BlackCat) has claimed that operators broke into Reddit's servers on February 5, 2023, and took 80 GB of zipped data. Furthermore, Reddit has been contacted by BlackCat, once on April 13 and again on June 16, with no response and no attempt to find out what was taken.