Weekly Threat Report 1st December 2017

Imgur compromise

Image-sharing website Imgur has been alerted to a security breach in which the email addresses and passwords of 1.7 million users worldwide were compromised in 2014. Investigations are ongoing but in a public blog post, the company’s CEO has  said that, although passwords were hashed using SHA-256 at the time, users should still take precautions such as using a different password for every site and application.

The website does not hold any other personal data on…

Link: Weekly Threat Report 1st December 2017
Source: NCSC Reports