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.

This is why I use and donate to community-supported file/image hosts like mixtape.moe, catbox.moe, kek.gg, vgy.me, ect. and you should too.

Not to be an apologist or whatever, but the imgur leak wasn't that bad, in part because imgur required very little information from their users--still probably more than they ought to--but it's not as catastrophic as, say, a the LinkedIn leak.
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Let's put it this way, would you rather that you voluntarily support the projects that you appreciate at your own discretion, or have you yourself be sold without you consent nor your knowing?