The blogging platform says an infrastructure fail is to blame for bizarre content showing up where it shouldn't. August 21, 2013 10:36 AM PDT (Credit: Screenshot/Jennifer Van Grove/CNET) Some Tumblr users awoke to an unwelcome surprise Wednesday morning when they discovered porn and other unsanctioned content on their blogs. Members, some suspecting a hack, reported that images, quotes, and other content they did not post or share are appearing on their Tumblr blogs. The content in question, which apparently cannot be deleted at this time, ranges from the innocuous to the inappropriate, with several people using the Tumblr support tag to complain of pornographic or vulgar images and apologize to their followers for the offending material. Related posts Watch the Internet stream by, one second at a time David Karp's pay package at Yahoo: Stick around 4 years, collect $110M Marissa Mayer taps Google's Zagat chief to lead Flickr "Earlier this morning, an infrastructure failure lasting roughly 15 minutes led posts created in this window to become corrupt," a Tumblr spokesperson told CNET. "No data was lost, but this has been causing inconsistent behavior for these affected blogs. Our engineering team is working quickly to correct the situation." The Yahoo-owned company posted a statement on Twitter early Wednesday saying that the issue affected a small number of blogs. The nature of the bug, however, means that followers of the affected blogs are also subject to seeing the uninvited posts and graphic images in their dashboards.
The blogging platform says an infrastructure fail is to blame for bizarre content showing up where it shouldn't.
Some Tumblr users awoke to an unwelcome surprise Wednesday morning when they discovered porn and other unsanctioned content on their blogs.
Members, some suspecting a hack, reported that images, quotes, and other content they did not post or share are appearing on their Tumblr blogs. The content in question, which apparently cannot be deleted at this time, ranges from the innocuous to the inappropriate, with several people using the Tumblr support tag to complain of pornographic or vulgar images and apologize to their followers for the offending material.
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"Earlier this morning, an infrastructure failure lasting roughly 15 minutes led posts created in this window to become corrupt," a Tumblr spokesperson told CNET. "No data was lost, but this has been causing inconsistent behavior for these affected blogs. Our engineering team is working quickly to correct the situation."
The Yahoo-owned company posted a statement on Twitter early Wednesday saying that the issue affected a small number of blogs. The nature of the bug, however, means that followers of the affected blogs are also subject to seeing the uninvited posts and graphic images in their dashboards.
