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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.