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Hackers threaten to leak stolen Reddit data if company doesn’t pay $4.5 million and change controversial pricing policy — CNN

By TechTaffy Desk

Hackers from the BlackCat ransomware gang, also known as ALPHV, are threatening to leak 80 gigabytes of confidential data from Reddit, writes Jennifer Korn.

Here is the link: https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/19/tech/reddit-hackers-demands-api/index.html

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