Imgur accounts database hacked

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I know that the SDMB Teeming Millions have been recommending Imgur as a picture-hosting resource, now that Photobucket went all extortion-mode. Looks like Imgur let their user database escape several years ago and just now got around to noticing. :confused:

From here.

If you have an Imgur account, you were probably already notified to do a password change (assuming your registered email account is still valid, and that you monitor it.)

OTOH, that’s a long time between breach and notice. If you make a (bad) habit of reusing email and password on other sites, and you noticed someone got into one of those sites, this may be why.

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Good to know.

Of course, one nice thing about Imgur is that you don’t need an account to toss a picture up on there. That’s not a defense of their hacking or failure to notice/notify but just to say that I’d still recommend them for one-off picture hosting when you just need to illustrate a point with a picture.