COMPANY PROFILE

Reddit

Headquarters: San Francisco, United States · Founded: 2005 · Listed: NYSE: RDDT

1 fine or sanction2 data breaches

What it does and how it makes money

Reddit is a social network of communities (subreddits) where users post, comment and vote on content; it sells advertising and licenses its data.

In 2025 about 94% of its revenue came from advertising; the rest includes content licensing. ^[1]

What data it collects about you

Per its privacy policy, it collects account data, posts and private messages, votes and subscriptions, IP address, device data, pages viewed and searches, approximate location and inferred traits (age, gender); it receives data from ad partners that it may match using a hashed email. ^[2]

Money

Fines and sanctions

In total: 14.5 million GBP

• ICO · United Kingdom · February 24, 202614.5 million GBP
  Unlawful use of children's data: it had no robust age checks, so it processed data of under-13s without a lawful basis, and did not assess risks to children until January 2025. Reddit said it intends to appeal. ^[4]

Data breaches and hacks

• February 2023
  After phishing an employee's credentials, attackers accessed internal documents, source code, contact details of hundreds of current and former employees and some advertiser information; Reddit said it had no evidence user data was taken. ^[5]
• August 2018
  An attacker accessed a 2007 backup with usernames, salted hashed passwords, emails and content including some private messages, plus June 2018 email-digest logs linking usernames to email addresses. ^[6]

Ask it to delete your data

With GUARDIANA or GUARDIANA ZERO, you download from this same profile the letter asking it to delete your data, under your country’s law, ready to attach to an email.

Its website

https://www.reddit.com/

Sources

1. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1713445/000171344526000022/rddt-20251231.htm
2. https://www.reddit.com/policies/privacy-policy
3. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260205441801/en/Reddit-Reports-Fourth-Quarter-and-Full-Year-2025-Results-Announces-%241-Billion-Share-Repurchase-Program
4. https://www.scl.org/ico-fines-reddit-14-47-million-for-childrens-privacy-failures/
5. https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/10/reddit-says-hackers-accessed-internal-data-following-employee-phishing-attack/amp
6. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/reddit-announces-security-breach-after-hackers-bypassed-staffs-2fa/?mid=1

What this profile does NOT say

• It does not say this company does anything illegal. The only thing it states about anyone’s legality is what a regulator or a court has already decided, with the date and the link to the source.
• It does not say what data of yours it holds: only the company knows, which is why you have the right to ask it.
• If you are this company and a fact is wrong, write to hola@guardianagroup.com and it will be corrected, with its date.

Public facts with their sources, checked on October 12, 2026. All profiles →