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Reddit has been going for like a billion years, and you only got 80GB - I mean even zipped, that can't even be a fraction of the data surely?
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I could get 80 GB of Reddit data in a day. ArchiveTeam has uploaded 2.97 PB (1PB is 1024 TB or 1048576 GB) so far trying to back up all of Reddit to the Internet Archive and they're still not finished!
internal documents, source code, employee data, and limited data about the company's advertisers.
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Any proof they have what they say they have? If they can't, at the very least, make that bit public, then imma have to call it a bluff.
Only $4.5 million? That amount seems kind of low if the data they have is as valuable as they say.
Ooh ThE rEdDiT fIlEs I can only hope it's more interesting than the twitter files
Can you share the onion link here
Haha suck shit!
Realizes it's probably my data too.
Yeah. These guys aren't heroes. They're threatening to screw us.
I'm going with, no. Or, who cares? No biggie.
I don't think the people who are still on Shittit will care.
Nice plot twist. Soon we can write a book about all this... :)
What onion address is that?
I wonder if u/spez ordered this hack so he can back off and save face. Of course I don't know the context but that's the first thing that comes to mind.
Nah, reading this no this hack is personal. They hacked this site months ago and now they're coming in here looking the heroes of the story? No, they were ignored. The hackers got pissed and now they're using this as an opportunity to get back at reddit. So what, they got maybe a terabyte of decompressed data at most, and they want 4 million dollars? This feels like some script kiddies utilizing a bad situation after getting ignored, not a professional op.
Is it safe to assume that nothing comes of this... Just like every other "hacker group" pretending they hacked some major entitity for a good cause?
Is there any way to verify their claim? Have they released any data yet?