Programmers stole data from 1.7 million Imgur accounts in 2014

On the off chance that you were an Imgur client in 2014, you should need to think about changing your secret key. Recently, the photograph sharing site uncovered (by means of Engadget) that it scholarly of a security break in 2014 that traded off the email locations and passwords of around 1.7 million clients.

Imgur's Chief Operating Officer, Roy Sehgal, affirmed that the break happened in 2014. Sehgal clarifies that Imgur doesn't gather names, locations, or telephone numbers from its clients, and that exclusive client messages and secret word data was spilled. As indicated by ZDNet, Troy Hunt, who runs the warning administration Have I Been Pwned, gotten the information, and turned over the data to Imgur.

The organization says that it's as yet exploring the episode, however that it trusts that programmers split the more seasoned calculation that was utilized at the time with beast drive. The organization redesigned its encryption in 2016.