A hacker with boredom hacked 70 podredditov

Reddit's security system is disgusting, he said

The BVM hacker says that he has “lost count” of the number of subdits that he has over the last few days. More than 70 Reddit themed communities are among the trophies, including quite popular / r / pics (11.2 million subscribers), / r / starwars , / r / gameofthrones and many others.

Hacking was possible because of the disgusting security system Reddit and the lack of two-factor authentication, explained the hacker. But he could not name the reason for his actions: “In fact, there are no reasons. Just boredom. This is not some kind of difficult accomplishment or something, I just killed time, ” said BVM.

BVM did not provide details on how he managed to take possession of 70 subdits. He only admitted that he went under the moderator accounts and replaced the original CSS styles with his message.
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Most likely, the hacker used some low-tech trick to learn the moderator passwords. One of the moderators admitted that he had a password of seven characters, which he used on other sites. So BVM could find the moderator password in one of the password databases.

The hacker says that he did not specifically choose subddits, but simply attacked the most popular ones by rating , or any random ones that came hand in hand.

The Reddit administration quickly responded to the incident and restored the original look of the pages. BVM acknowledged that technical support works very quickly with them.

Perhaps the Reddit website has time to introduce a rewards program for the vulnerabilities found, as Pornhub did . Then for bored hackers there is a more interesting lesson.