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Imgur blocks UK users after regulator threatens fine over child data use

David Uzondu — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 18:18:01 +0000

In the UK, Imgur displays a "Content not available in your region" error, and the ICO has now explained the reason. Read more...

Imgur to ban all explicit NSFW content starting May 15

Aditya Tiwari — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 13:40:02 +0000

Imgur has started its latest crackdown on explicit content uploaded to its platform. The website will soon remove all explicit content and orphan content that is not tied to any user account. Read more...

1.7 million account credentials stolen from Imgur in 2014

Boyd Chan — Sat, 25 Nov 2017 05:42:01 +0000

A data breach from 2014 has been found to include email addresses and hashed passwords of 1.7 million Imgur accounts. Many of the affected accounts have since had their plaintext password determined. Read more...

Virgin Media responds to an issue that caused high-profile sites to be inaccessible

Jack Wilkinson — Thu, 26 May 2016 21:00:01 +0000

Virgin Media has provided a statement explaining the loss of access to several high-profile websites last week including image hosting service Imgur. Customers took to the forums to complain. Read more...

Virgin Media customers report that Imgur was inaccessible; access has been restored [Update]

Jack Wilkinson — Sat, 21 May 2016 16:58:01 +0000

Virgin Media customers reported issues accessing Imgur, with some people suggesting the company has blocked the service. This is the second incident of Imgur being inaccessible on the Virgin ISP. Read more...

Is Yahoo looking at acquiring Imgur?

Shreyas Gandhe — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 10:40:55 +0000

Sources close to Yahoo have revealed that the company under Marissa Mayer might be looking at another acquisition with popular photo sharing website Imgur and talks have already begun. Read more...

From rags to riches: the story of Imgur

Max Slater-Robins — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 14:00:00 +0000

Neowin sat down with Alan Schaaf, CEO and Founder of Imgur, to talk about a wide range of subjects such as where he got the idea for Imgur from, how Imgur is doing and where it's going in the future. Read more...

Facebook engineer accidentally blocks Imgur, apologizes on Reddit

Nathan Tsui — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 04:18:51 +0000

Links to Imgur were blocked by Facebook for a period of time on Monday, because the site was accidentally deemed "spammy." The engineer responsible for the error apologized on Reddit. Read more...