What was exposed, when it happened, and which databases confirm it.
- accounts
- 3,493,278
- Breached
- September 1, 2013
- Last Update
- November 25, 2017
Were you caught in this breach?
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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.
Compromised Info
- Email addresses
- Passwords
Attestation
Four independent databases catalog this breach and they do not always agree. Each lane below is one source’s own count.
Sources & Link Methods
- LeakCheck— linked via automatic string matching
- HIBP
FAQ
What was leaked in the imgur breach?
The imgur breach exposed: Email addresses and Passwords.
When did the imgur breach happen?
The imgur breach was disclosed on September 1, 2013 and affected 1,749,806 records.
Am I affected by the imgur breach?
Search your email, phone or username at checkleaked.cc to find out whether your data appears in the imgur leak.