Private messages

Reddit hacked

According to Reddit, the unknown hacker(s) managed to gain read-only access to some of its systems that contained its users' backup data, source code, internal logs, and other files.

In a post published to the platform Wednesday, Reddit Chief Technology Officer Christopher Slowe admitted that the hack was a serious one, but assured its users that the hackers did not gain access to Reddit systems.

Court reverses ruling on sacking over private messages

Bogdan Mihai Barbulescu was sacked for sending the messages via the Yahoo messaging system in 2007.

His employer had used surveillance software to monitor his computer activity.

A Romanian court ruled in 2016 that the firm was within its rights but this has now been overturned.

Mr Barbulescu successfully challenged the original decision.

Some of the communications he had sent were "intimate in nature" and were sent to his brother and his fiancee, the court heard.