Reddit resets more than 100K user passwords - CNET

Reddit on Thursday alerted its community that it has sent out more than 100,000 password resets over the past two weeks. While Reddit itself hasn't been , it decided to act after seeing an uptick in account takeovers by malicious or "(at best spammy) third parties," the company said in a post.

In the post, Reddit refers to millions of passwords being dumped on the hacker market. That includes a Russian hacker who traded 272 million passwords for social media "likes," and the fallout from the LinkedIn data breach in 2012.

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