1.7 million Imgur users affected by an information leak

1.7 million users of the well-known platform of lodging of images, Imgur, have been affected by a flight of information happened in 2014 and that has come to light these last days. Data leakage has been reported because the administrator of a website dedicated to checking which emails have been involved in an information leak at some time, received a list of emails that belonged to the Imgur hack, who hid said incident.

The stolen information, which was stored using the encryption algorithm SHA-256 already obsolete, consists of emails and passwords so Imgur has contacted affected users to change their passwords on the image platform and elsewhere. that have used the same authentication combination.