You may start seeing Imgur's logo pop up in more places across the web. The image-sharing site is launching a new tool for embedding images today that'll allow anyone to take an image, its caption, and information about who posted it and how many comments are on it, and place that on another website. Imgur has allowed images to be embedded elsewhere before today, but this update means that a lot more information will now come along with them.
1.7M emails and passwords effected. Ouch.
Fortunately, I never created an account there, though it's my go-to place for random image hosting. All these incidents coming to light are alarming. I really need to create a throwaway email acct for unimportant registrations to sites.
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Most imgur images are shared on reddit. It's be great if the original author is credited when it's shared on reddit especially when it gets thousands of upvotes on reddit.