# Imgur accounts database hacked

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imgur-accounts-database-hacked/802879>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 27, 2017, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imgur-accounts-database-hacked/802879 "2017-11-27T16:41:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2017, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imgur-accounts-database-hacked/802879/1 "2017-11-27T16:41:00Z")

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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](https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/27/imgur-says-1-7m-emails-and-passwords-were-breached-in-2014-hack/) and just now got around to noticing. 😕

> [@Imgur blog post](#):
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> Early morning on November 24th, we confirmed that approximately 1.7 million Imgur user accounts were compromised in 2014. The compromised account information included only email addresses and passwords.

From [here](https://blog.imgur.com/2017/11/24/notice-of-data-breach/).

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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**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2017, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imgur-accounts-database-hacked/802879/2 "2017-11-27T18:03:57Z")

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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.