Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Imgur Data Breach Exposed 1.7 Million Users Emails and Passwords by Hackers

Imgur Data Breach exposed almost 1.7 Million Users sensitive Emails and Passwords that was occurred in 2014.

Imgur is an online image sharing community which has 150 Million total users, 6 Billion page views per month, 1.5 Million Images uploading daily by Imgur visitors.

This potential Imgur Data Breach was reported by a Web security Expert Troy hunt who is actively running Data Breach services called  Have I Been Pwned.

Imgur Data Breach Investigation

After his Incident Report passed to Imgur’s Chief Operating Officer via Email. Further investigation revealed, and Imgur team finally confirmed that approximately 1.7 million Imgur user accounts were compromised in 2014.

Since Imgur has never asked for real names, addresses, phone numbers, or other personally-identifying information (“PII”), so the information that was compromised did NOT include such PII.

At that time Imgur used an older hashing algorithm that leads to hackers performing Brute force attack against the Imgur Website.

Troyhunt  said, “I disclosed this incident to Imgur late in the day in the midst of the US Thanksgiving holidays,” said Hunt. “That they could pick this up immediately, protect impacted accounts, notify individuals and prepare public statements in less than 24 hours is absolutely exemplary.”

Imgur Started notifying to impacted users via their registered email address, and they urged to update their passwords.

According to Imgur, 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. But Imgur said that site security had improved since the breach.

Some of Very Recent Data Leaked Online

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  2. Fashion Retailer FOREVER 21 Admits Payment Card Security Breach
  3. Accenture Data Leak Exposed 137 Gigabytes of Highly Sensitive Data Online
  4.  Deloitte Hacked by Cyber Criminals and Revealed Client & Employee’s Secret Emails
  5. Leading research and advisory firms Forrester was hacked
  6. Disqus confirms it’s been hacked and more than 17.5 Million Users Details Exposed
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  10. Hyatt Hotels Data Breach Exposed 41 Hotel Customers Payment Card Information
  11. Verizon Wireless Confidential DataLeaked Accidentally by Its Employee
  12. ABC Company Massive Data Leaked online from Amazon S3 Bucket
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  15. HP Exposed more than 400,000 Customers Sensitive Information Online
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Balaji
BALAJI is an Ex-Security Researcher (Threat Research Labs) at Comodo Cybersecurity. Editor-in-Chief & Co-Founder - Cyber Security News & GBHackers On Security.

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