IMGUR Tells Us Too Late...

Nov 27, 2017 5:11 PM

ronin1869

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FROM the BLOG: https://blog.imgur.com/2017/11/24/notice-of-data-breach/

TECHCRUNCH: https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/27/imgur-says-1-7m-emails-and-passwords-were-breached-in-2014-hack/?utm_medium=TCnewsletter

For those wondering, vulnerabilities to SHA-1 were identified as early as 2004, and vulnerabilities to the SHA-2 (Secure Hash Algorithm 2) family were identified as early as 2011. It's up to the people who depend on users to crowdsource their content to keep us safe. This means regularly evaluating your own systems for vulnerabilities and fixing them.

http://valerieaurora.org/hash.html

they notified as soon as they knew - not sure what more they could've done.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

At least they didn't pull a Uber.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Good thing they told us all so quickly or someone would have had close to 3 years to take part in nefarious activities.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Well hopefully you aren’t using the same email/password for everything

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

they told us as soon as we knew they knew, what more could they have done!?

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

please see my updated post description.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Imgur just found out. Quit sniveling about it.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

They were only aware of it not that long ago... And you should be using unique passwords for every site/service you use anyway.

8 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

I do.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0