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View submission: Reddit Security Report -- February 26, 2019
For those of us that are new, is there some place that explains what these metrics mean? For example, 3rd party breach accounts processed at 4B, sounds like there were 4B accounts breached.
Comment by worstnerd at 26/02/2020 at 18:40 UTC
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The 4B accounts is actually accounts from OTHER platforms that have been breached. Some small number of those credentials may be reused on Reddit, which makes them vulnerable to credential stuffing attacks. You can check your accounts on https://haveibeenpwned.com/[1][2] and read more about protecting your reddit account on https://www.reddit.com/r/redditsecurity/comments/bletrr/how%5C_to%5C_keep%5C_your%5C_reddit%5C_account%5C_safe/[3][4]
1: https://haveibeenpwned.com/
2: https://haveibeenpwned.com/
4: https://old.reddit.com/r/redditsecurity/comments/bletrr/how_to_keep_your_reddit_account_safe/