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Breach occurred 2013-09-01Verifiedimgur.com
What happened
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.
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The imgur data breach occurred on September 1, 2013. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on November 25, 2017.
1,749,806 accounts were affected by the imgur data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The imgur breach exposed the following data types: Email addresses, Passwords.
Yes. Have I Been Pwned has verified the imgur breach, meaning there's confirmed evidence the exposed data is genuine and tied to real accounts.
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