Photobucket's terms of use are always available at http://photobucket.com/terms. Here are some common abuse and security scenarios.

My Account was banned

The Photobucket Terms of Use apply to all accounts. Any media that violates the Terms of Use will be removed, and the offending account may be terminated without warning and without any chance of recovering any media in that account. After Photobucket bans an account, it is terminated, and all access to the content is gone.

Someone is using an image I own without my permission

Photobucket’s policy is based on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (DMCA). The Photobucket Inc. Copyright and Intellectual Property Policy contains instructions for getting your image removed. These instructions are also at the end of the Terms of Use.

I found some bad content that violates Photobucket's Terms of Use

Send an email to support@photobucket.com. Make sure the subject is abuse, and include the URL of the content in the body of the email.

I think I've been hacked! My pictures are gone!

Take a deep breath and don't freak out! Log in to Photobucket and change your password immediately. We also reccommend you change your registered email address. Your email account may have been compromised as well!

Note: We are very sorry, but images that are lost cannot be restored.

Can people access my account using FireSheep?

The FireSheep add-on is available to users of the Firefox Browser. Photobucket is not one of the websites pre-built into this add-on, however, it would be wise to use caution. Photobucket advises against logging into your Photobucket account using an unsecured WiFi network, but if you do need to access your Photobucket account using an unsecured WiFi network, you may want to install the HTTPS-Everywhere Firefox add-on which may be able to force a secure login session. It's built by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. You may also want to install the Force-TLS Firefox add-on, which may allow you to specify your own list of domain names on which to force encryption. Logging in using VPN (or something similar such as an SSH tunnel) can be helpful, as well, though caution should still be used. Visit FireSheep creator Eric Butler's blog for more information: http://codebutler.com/firesheep-a-day-later