According to a spokesman for Reddit, the company is “continue to investigate and actively monitor the issue.” They also stated that the lessons they gained from a security compromise five years ago are still applicable. If the attackers were only able to acquire some non-user information this time, the 2018 hack would have been far more damaging. Bad actors were able to obtain users’ current email addresses, as well as a database backup from 2007 including account passwords, at the time.
