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Adrian Sol
Daily Stormer
November 26, 2017
This is devastating news.
There’s been a lot of major hacks over the past year. But none have hurt as much as this one. After all, it sucks to have your address, phone number and financial data stolen by criminals, but most people are wise enough to keep their most precious resources in a safe place.
Indeed, Imgur has been the trusted safekeeper of many people’s precious rare Pepe stash for years now.
Having such a crucial part of the meme economic infrastructure compromised shakes the public’s trust in the long-term prospect of dank memes as a reliable repository of value. As a result, the Pepe market, once a bastion of the meme economy, is in free fall.
2017’s unending parade of major companies and web destinations suffering through major breaches of user information has not slowed down. Image-sharing site Imgur revealed it had been hacked several years ago this week, with the details of approximately 1.7 million accounts lost in 2014 to hackers who have not been identified.
Per ZDNet, this hack may be less of a reason for concern for many of the users involved as Imgur only collects email addresses and passwords, rather than any other personally identifiable information like physical addresses, phone numbers or credit card data. In a blog post on Friday, the company said it was “still actively investigating the incident,” but it had determined that its database “may have been cracked with brute force due to an older hashing algorithm (SHA-256) that was used at the time.”
What kind of retards do they have writing at Gizmodo?
Did this guy even check the Pepe prices?
While some delusionaly hope that the market will recover and still post high prices, most Pepes are now going for pennies on the dollar.
Imgur says it subsequently updated his database to use the the newer bcrypt algorithm, which is significantly harder to break, in 2016.
In particular, users who use the same password on multiple sites (which is probably most people) or those who uploaded personally identifiable content to Imgur—like, say, anyone who may have uploaded nude photos of themselves for distribution on Reddit—should be interested in changing their passwords. Still, this is much less devastating than some of the very serious hacks to occur recently, like the leak of over 145 million Americans’ personal information from credit rating agency Equifax, or a major Uber data breach that the company covered up by allegedly paying the hackers $100,000.
Some people are speculating that the after effects could be worse than the Israeli market crash of 2015.
If I had to bet, I’d say the hackers responsible for this are probably bitter Jews who lost all their shekels in 2015 and are now trying to ruin it for everyone else.
