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Breaches
1
1 verified
Records Exposed
1.7M
Total across all breaches
Data Types Leaked
2
1 high risk
Latest Breach
2013
imgur

Breach History

imgur
Sep 2013Critical
1.7M
Records exposed
2
Data types leaked
Verified
Status

In September 2013, the online image sharing community imgur suffered a data breach. A selection of the data containing 1.7 million email addresses and passwords surfaced more than 4 years later in November 2017. Although imgur stored passwords as SHA-256 hashes, the data in the breach contained plain text passwords suggesting that many of the original hashes had been cracked. imgur advises that they rolled over to bcrypt hashes in 2016.

Exposed Data Types
Email addressesPasswords
Incident Status
Data breachYes
Data brokerNo
Policy contradictionsNo
Exposed Data Types
Email addressesLow risk
PasswordsHigh risk