The company released a statement alerting users that a hacker broke into a few of its systems and managed to access some user data, including “some current email addresses and a 2007 database backup containing old salted and hashed passwords.”

Reddit said it learned of the incident on June 19 and the apparent breach happened between June 14 and 18. Reddit's founding engineer, Christopher Slowe, said in a post Wednesday on the social networking site that the hacker accessed data from the site's launch in 2005 through May 2007. "Although this was a serious attack, the attacker did not gain write access to Reddit systems; they gained read-only access to some systems that contained backup data, source code and other logs," Reddit's founding engineer Christopher Slowe wrote here on Reddit. Slowe said Reddit learned on June 19 an attacker compromised a few of its employees´ accounts between June 14 and June 18.The breach was carried out by intercepting text messages that were meant to reach employees with one-time login codes, Reddit said, adding that it was notifying the affected users.
Reddit reports a data breach consisting of emails and usernames. The site states that the perpetrators had access to information on accounts which were subscribed to their newsletter between the 3rd and 17th of June, as well as those created between 2005 and 2007.