Imgur discloses data breach which affected 1.7 million user accounts

https://www.medianama.com/2017/11/223-imgur-data-breach/

Online image sharing community Imgur notified users of a potential data breach which occurred in 2014 which affected 1.7 million accounts. Imgur said that email addresses and passwords might have been compromised. The company said that it got an email on November 23 by a security researcher and said that he had data that included information of Imgur users.
“Our Chief Operating Officer received the email late night on November 23rd and immediately corresponded with the researcher to learn more about the potential breach. He simultaneously notified Imgur’s Founder/CEO and Vice President of Engineering. Our Vice President of Engineering then arranged to securely receive the data from the researcher and began working to validate that the data belonged to Imgur users,” Imgur said in the blog post.

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My view was, and remains, that people hate to find old forum posts using imageshack etc image hosting because those links are usually dead. That is because they are old companies. Once this newer crop of image hosts have been around long enough posts linking to them will also be dead. Every time you see a dead image, it is a reminder that "the cloud" is not your messiah and will not save you.