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How Was Reddit Defaced?

More than 70 Reddit communities were temporarily hijacked and used to post messages in support of President Donald Trump over the weekend. Reddit has yet to publish a full postmortem on the incident, but it says the compromised accounts did not have two-factor authentication enabled. A now-suspended Twitter account, @advanceHCAjobs, claimed responsibility for the attack. The account, saying it belongs to Calvin Goh and Melvern, claimed it was so easy as we combined password stuffing and social engineering together to beat the teenage bitcoin cheater”]

Source: https://www.databreachtoday.com/how-was-reddit-defaced-a-14795

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