What happened to imageshack?

[FosterG]

Does anyone know what has happened to imageshack?

 

[djslofstra]

It has been hacked.... by images.
No for real. I have no idea. I also notice that there are a lot of broken images on GTP.

 

[FosterG]

It does appear to have been hacked, but there is no notification.

 

[ONevermind]

Their Twitter says

ImageShack is currently down and engineers are attempting to recover the services, we expect partial restoration in 24 hours, and full in 78
11 hours ago - View on Twitter

 

[FosterG]

Thank you ONevermind, hope it is back soon, I also hope it is not something malicious as I have not heard anything to that effect, still not recognizing my login info.

 

[Dennisch]

Looks like I lost most of my uploads on Imageshack.

They're either black or it's a broken picture.

 

[Grayfox]

Contact them.

They should have a backup and a back up of the backup.

 

[AOS-]

I back up my images on an external and multiple image hosting servers in case of events like this.

 

[Grayfox]

I back up my images on an external and multiple image hosting servers in case of events like this.

Best way to back up is a 4 way.

Keep a copy on your computer.
Keep a copy on a external HDD.
Keep a copy on a CD/DVD/BD-R.
Keep a copy on a cloud backup.