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Re:Reddit Confirms It Was Hacked–Recommends Users Set Up 2FA by jwestbury on Friday February 10, 2023 @05:12AM (#34737782)
Every company describes successful breaches as "sophisticated," because if it wasn't sophisticated then it's their own failure.
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Re:Reddit Confirms It Was Hacked–Recommends Users Set Up 2FA by asddubs on Friday February 10, 2023 @06:52AM (#34738500)
was it the north korean government using military level hacking technology? yes. i mean, we don't know. but probably.
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Re:Reddit Confirms It Was Hacked–Recommends Users Set Up 2FA by ilyt on Friday February 10, 2023 @07:02AM (#34738579)
"Military level" is another means-nothing term.

Could be anything from average phishing or some 0-day that happened to be found by gov employee or phishing email, to "a bunch of men kidnapped target and beat them till they gave them access

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Re:Reddit Confirms It Was Hacked–Recommends Users Set Up 2FA by PenguinCoder on Friday February 10, 2023 @07:22AM (#34738731)
And for this case, highly highly doubt a threat actor would burn a zero day for a Reddit phish.
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