Synopsis
“Reddit explaining the nature of the phishing attack further mentioned that the attack was targeted at Reddit employees pressuring them into clicking on the link to a site that was similar to the internal gateway of Reddit. It seems some of the employees clicked on the link and enabled the hackers to enter the internal systems, thereby getting hold of the company data.”
Reddit, the California-based technology enabled community builder, has accepted that its site was hacked this week and claimed that the phishing attack was sophisticated targeting its employees.
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The social media platform also mentioned this phishing attack happened on February 5 breaching the security systems of Reddit.
Having said that, the information technology company made sure that there was no exposure of the user database in the hack attempt but the hackers were able to access code, some internal documents, and some internal business systems.
Reddit explaining the nature of the phishing attack further mentioned that the attack was targeted at Reddit employees pressuring them into clicking on the link to a site that was similar to the internal gateway of Reddit.
It seems some of the employees clicked on the link and enabled the hackers to enter the internal systems, thereby getting hold of the company data.
It once again persuades users that there has been no data loss or attack on the data of users. And in fact most of the data leaked comprises limited information about hundreds of company contacts and employees.
The company has tackled a complete analysis of the phishing attack after the employees notified them of possible intrusion from hackers.
The security team of Reddit managed to immediately close the breach and ascertain there was the least possible damage to its systems.
First of all, the attacker’s access to the systems was blocked and then initiated its enquiry into the incident mentioning the aforementioned details.
