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Reddit Gets Trumped: Hackers Vandalize Communities With MAGA Messages - Gizmodo
Aug 09, 2020 41 secs

Weeks after Twitter suffered an embarrassing hack that compromised influential accounts, attackers took aim at Reddit on Friday, specifically at a number of popular and high-profile subreddit communities, such as r/space, r/food, r/Japan, r/nfl, r/cfb and r/podcasts, among many others.

The coordinated attack involved vandalizing the subreddits—which together have millions of subscribers—by plastering pro-Trump images on them and, in many cases, posting messages affirming support for the president from hacked moderator accounts, per Wired.

The company suspects the attack was carried out via compromised moderator accounts.

“It appears the source of the attacks were compromised moderator accounts.

As mentioned above, Reddit believes that the hackers targeted moderator accounts to gain control of the subreddits and vandalize them?

Nonetheless, important questions remain: How were the hackers able to take over moderator accounts?

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