What a week, indeed. First the social bookmarking site Reddit went dead to the world for a prolonged period … and now they are having to ‘fess up to a data breach. … Sometimes the arrow just gets stuck in down mode.
From the Reddit site this afternoon:
what a week…
Again, we’re sorry about yesterday’s outage — the DNS troubles were entirely our fault. On a separate note, we want to make you aware that media of ours that contained a backup of a portion of the reddit database was stolen recently. Although the media did not contain any personally identifiable information about our users and we have no reason to believe that reddit data was the target of the theft, we wanted to alert you to the possibility that your username, password, and — in some cases — e-mail address may have been compromised. If you use the user name and/or password for other purposes, we suggest that you change them in those other uses as soon as possible — just in case.
