In an article published on 19 June 2023 in globalsecuritymag.fr/, Benoit Grunemwald, cybersecurity expert at ESET France, recounts the cyberattack suffered by REDDIT, an American social news aggregation, content rating, and discussion website, in February of the same year, and draws some lessons from it. This article follows the hackers' attempts, last repeated on 16 June, to obtain a ransom of 4.5 million dollars in order to delete the 80 GB of data stolen from the company, to which the company did not respond. The data was not encrypted, so the company did not lose it. However, the same cannot be said for its reputation. Benoit Grunemwald explains that " It all started with a phishing email to harvest employee account data. All it takes is for a single employee to be trapped for cyber criminals to gain access to internal documents, software code, employee data , etc." He goes on to stress the " need to integrate in-depth security methods and resources, such as zer
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