Reddit Got Hacked Thanks to a Woefully Insecure Two-Factor Setup

Published: Aug. 3, 2018, 4:31 p.m.

Reddit said in a blog post Wednesday that a hacker broke into the company's systems in June and gained access to a variety of data, including user emails, source code and internal files, and \u201call Reddit data from 2007 and before.\u201d And it likely could have been avoided if some Reddit employees were using two-factor authentication apps or physical keys instead of their phone numbers.