I'm not sure they understand Reddit.

Did you know they also silently censor users?

Reddit has been shadowbanning users (making it so their accounts don't publicly hold data or karma, but allowing them to continue making comments) without telling them they're shadowbanned for many years now. The idea that Reddit is silently going and removing the content from some users is really not a surprise.

BlackCat’s post also claims:

In our last email to them, we stated that we wanted $4.5 million in exchange for the deletion of the data and our silence. As we also stated, if we had to make this public, then we now demand that they also withdraw their API pricing changes along with our money or we will leak it.

We expect to leak the data.

LoL. I like how they try to play the good guys with this spin.

Reddit was emailed twice by operators, once on April 13 and one again on June 16.

There was no attempt to find out what we took.

And now they are going public with it, but still haven't posted any kind of proof, or leaked anything at all. The most they say is "Did you know they also silently censor users?" which everyone already knew about as well.

It seems like a bluff to me, but of course I could be wrong.

I don't like how Reddit is operating at all and I made an active decision to use federated instances more.

With that said, I'm not cheering for hackers that steal data and hold it ransom. I can protest/dislike reddit w/o encouraging reckless behavior

without posting any proof of claim as of today.

I would like to see proof before I cheer.

Looks like that is a new, but already established Ransom Group. To be clear, that are criminals that normally shouldn't be cheered at. But I'm ready to make an exception this time.

Hoping it‘s true, but I‘ll wait with congratulations until I see some proof.

Anyway, criminals or whatnot, is a fine line anyway and subjective. To me spez is the criminal right now, it‘s just that there isn‘t a crime for "destruction of communities" and if there were there‘d be an exception for rich people.

Do it! Let’s see

The data sounds interesting. No matter what your API price is, scrapers, hackers are still gonna get Reddit's data for free.

I want so bad for this to be real.

Could be interesting if this contains some data showing how reddit stores data and shines more info on reddit restoring deleted comments, since that could become a GDPR issue.

what i really hope this data will not contain:
User Login credentials. Though if it did, the hackers would probably already have taken control of some admin accounts.

"The data" sounds serious. Bet people would pay a lot of money to get hold of this "data"!

Users will pay as always.

Reddit continues to crumble.

Somebody post the "Dis gun b good" gif please! Ive got my popcorn ready.

Will releasing this data even do anything to hurt Reddit?

lol