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Topic: lol, imgur is being hacked or something

squeegee started this discussion 8 years ago #72,131

images are being replaced all over the place or something, and there's a lot of Chinese and Russian text and images being spammed to the front page as a result.

https://imgur.com/gallery/nNK2U - earlier post about white people not recognizing bay leaves
https://imgur.com/gallery/5YJ1U - was a single image earlier

click around on popular and you'll find more. and check out usersub new to see response images going up and people questioning it and wondering if it's a hack.

squeegee (OP) double-posted this 8 years ago, 1 minute later[^] [v] #864,769

oh. shit, ok, it's serious.

squeegee (OP) triple-posted this 8 years ago, 1 minute later, 3 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #864,770

squeegee (OP) quadruple-posted this 8 years ago, 4 minutes later, 7 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #864,772

alright, the reddit detectives think they may be on to something. we can rest easy, our memes are going to be safe.

squeegee (OP) quintuple-posted this 8 years ago, 4 minutes later, 11 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #864,773

it has a name now, imagepocalypse.

squeegee (OP) sextuple-posted this 8 years ago, 3 minutes later, 14 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #864,774

some imgur posters are saying it's happening on Facebook feeds as well. i wouldn't know.

Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 8 years ago, 1 minute later, 16 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #864,775

It closed my Imgur phone app after I clicked in one of those infected posts

Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 8 years ago, 2 minutes later, 18 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #864,777

Externally hosted imagetest

Anonymous C double-posted this 8 years ago, 1 minute later, 19 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #864,778

Externally hosted imagemore test

Anonymous C triple-posted this 8 years ago, 26 seconds later, 20 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #864,779

Externally hosted imagestill test

Anonymous C quadruple-posted this 8 years ago, 2 minutes later, 23 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #864,780

Externally hosted imagedoesn't look like these have been affected

squeegee (OP) replied with this 8 years ago, 1 minute later, 24 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #864,781

it looks like they are already resolving things. posts are being removed as things are getting restored. they've already fixed the albums i first posted.

Anonymous C replied with this 8 years ago, 2 minutes later, 26 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #864,782

Externally hosted imagesome of my stuff that's saved from imgur is giving an invalid file error though

Anonymous B replied with this 8 years ago, 1 minute later, 27 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #864,783

https://twitter.com/malwaretechblog/status/965490903082188800

Anonymous C replied with this 8 years ago, 58 seconds later, 28 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #864,784

Externally hosted image

Shorts Kid double-posted this 8 years ago, 1 minute later, 29 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #864,785

Externally hosted image

Anonymous C triple-posted this 8 years ago, 2 minutes later, 32 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #864,786

Externally hosted image
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