The breach was due to a phishing campaign targeted at Reddit employees. — Dreamstime/TNS
SINGAPORE: Popular social media platform Reddit was hit by a phishing attack on Feb 5 that saw hackers gain access to internal documents and code, but no user data was compromised.
The exposed data included the “limited” contact information of hundreds of “company contacts” and Reddit employees, as well as some advertiser information, said a Reddit spokesman in a thread posted on the platform’s official subreddit last Friday (Feb 10).
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