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Imgur (one of the world’s most visited websites) has confirmed email addresses, passwords were stolen in 2014 hack, the company said that an unknown hacker was able to steal data of 1.7 million users, representing about 1.13% of Imgur’s entire 150 million users.
The breach didn’t contain personal data because the website has “never asked” for real names, addresses, or mobile numbers.
Only emails and password hashes were stolen in the breach. The company said that the data were hashed using the SHA-256 algorithm, which is breakable.
According to Imgur:
On November 23, Imgur was notified of a potential security breach that occurred in 2014 that affected the email addresses and passwords of 1.7 million user accounts. While 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.
Imgur had been told on Thanksgiving of a data breach on November 23 by the popular security researcher Troy Hunt, who manages the data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned. The breach went unnoticed for 4 years until the stolen information was sent to Troy Hunt.