[News] Imgur's Photo-sharing site was hacked in 2014, with more than 1 million accounts showing Emails and passwords
[News]
Imgur's Photo-sharing site was hacked in 2014, with more than 1 million accounts showing Emails and passwords
About 1.7 million Imgur account information including Email addresses and login passwords were hacked by Hackers in 2014.
"On the afternoon of November 23rd, an email was sent to Imgur by a security researcher who frequently deals with data breaches. He believed he was sent data that included information of Imgur users. Our Chief Operating Officer received the email late night on November 23rd and immediately corresponded with the researcher to learn more about the potential breach. He simultaneously notified Imgur’s Founder/CEO and Vice President of Engineering. Our Vice President of Engineering then arranged to securely receive the data from the researcher and began working to validate that the data belonged to Imgur users." - Imgur -
In the blog post, Imgur said hackers had stolen their email address and login password of 1.7 million of their 150 million monthly users. No personal information is disclosed as Imgur does not require your name, home address or telephone number when registering.
Imgur's Photo-sharing site was hacked in 2014, with more than 1 million accounts showing Emails and passwords
About 1.7 million Imgur account information including Email addresses and login passwords were hacked by Hackers in 2014.
"On the afternoon of November 23rd, an email was sent to Imgur by a security researcher who frequently deals with data breaches. He believed he was sent data that included information of Imgur users. Our Chief Operating Officer received the email late night on November 23rd and immediately corresponded with the researcher to learn more about the potential breach. He simultaneously notified Imgur’s Founder/CEO and Vice President of Engineering. Our Vice President of Engineering then arranged to securely receive the data from the researcher and began working to validate that the data belonged to Imgur users." - Imgur -
In the blog post, Imgur said hackers had stolen their email address and login password of 1.7 million of their 150 million monthly users. No personal information is disclosed as Imgur does not require your name, home address or telephone number when registering.
On November 23, we were notified about a data breach on Imgur that occurred in 2014. While we are still actively investigating the intrusion, we wanted to inform you as quickly as possible as to what we know and what we are doing in response. More: https://t.co/qElAetGVIc— Imgur (@imgur) Ngày 25 tháng 11 năm 2017
The company added that while it's still investigating how the information was compromised, it suspects it was due to an older hashing algorithm, SHA-256, which has since been updated. As ZDNet reports, Imgur didn't find out about the breach until the stolen data was sent to security researcher Troy Hunt, who then contacted the firm about it.
Roy Sehgal, Imgur's chief operating officer, said those who have been affected have already been informed. "We take protection of your information very seriously," he wrote, "and will be conducting an internal security review of our system and processes." Hopefully his team can figure out how this incident went unnoticed for roughly three years.
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