Mass defacement of discussion groups on Reddit

Unknown intruders staged mass vandalism on Reddit, which resulted in a change in the design of about 150 groups, the total audience of which is estimated at several million participants. The background and design elements of the attacked groups were replaced with pictures with campaigning for Donald Trump.

Reddit initiated an investigation into the incident. According to preliminary data, the pages were spoofed as a result of the capture of accounts of community moderators. All moderators of captured groups did not have two-factor authentication enabled. It is assumed that these moderators used the same password on different sites and the attackers used the available databases of compromised passwords to gain access.

Mass defacement of discussion groups on Reddit

Source: opennet.ru

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