[Warning] Imgur data breach; 1.7 million accounts affected

Hi gang,

Are you using Imgur by any chance? Then you might want to take note to this, especially if you've been using their services for several years already.

As it turns out their website was breached around 2014 and the accounts of 1.7million users were compromised. In other words: attackers managed to obtain the username (=e-mail) and password combinations of those affected accounts.

You can read the official statement by Imgur here.

Now, this probably doesn't directly affect you, all the accounts which were affected have been notified by Imgur (according to said statement) and are urged to change their password (as if that will do any good right now). However, nothing is certain so far. Although the breach was said to have happened in 2014 it's still possible that several 3rd parties continued to have access. No one knows for sure at the moment.

So the damage and risk is minimal. However, I still wanted to share this because it's once again a very clear example why it is so important to use different passwords on different websites.

Thanks for letting everyone know! Luckily I only properly joined in March 2016, so I don't have to worry.

I didn’t know people actually registered for imgur.

I was never affected by it. It's kind of weird though that the breach happened in 2014 and the Imgur staff themselves didn't notice until just a few days ago

Well it's kind of got its own community with over 100 million registered users, so...

Kaptrix - it's useful for hosting images you want to keep but may not always have the space for, or sharing them if need be.

That said organization on Imgur is god-awful and I need to clean mine anyway.

Not only that, it's one of the most toxic communities I've seen on the internet.

But in regards to the data breach: yay, this is just another reason for me to hate Imgur.

Then you must've seen the wrong parts. >.< the community is actually quite good in a lot of parts/ways.

Why would you sign up for imgur

Because not everyone has the same opinion as you and actually like Imgur

Well I formally apologize, everyone, for making a joke

Maybe I have, but from personal experience many of the people there tend to be quite aggressive. For example, I saw a person upload a selfie and accidentally left it on public the other day and they got about 20 comments calling them really horrible things, just because they put a selfie there. The person laughed and joked about it but there's no reason to just bombard someone with insults about their appearance, especially not for the reason they did. They also downvote things for no good reason, which is one of the reasons Reddit no longer uses it as a primary image host and made their own (on top of it becoming extremely bloated, and pushing its mobile app so hard they made it really hard to use the website on mobile for no reason).

And oh god their memes are weak af

Strange that a site like that didn't hash + salt their account passwords in their database. Since sha256 would be difficult to break (not impossible). Even if accounts were stolen a username + a random hash string would tedious to reverse engineer making the accounts lost still useless.

One of the main rules of Imgur: Do not post selfies. People are ruthless with them on purpose, because it's just a thing.

Nor Minecraft picures I recall Aya doing that once and her reputation dropped like a brick

GTA screenshots are heavily frowned upon as well.

Imgur has rules?

Or are these just unofficial lol because if so that doesn't win me over to their side 🤷

This is one of the header posts on the front page

It's just widely accepted by the Imgur community that one does not post selfies on there