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Disqus just disclosed 2012 security breach, exposing Information of 17.5 Million Users
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If you have a Disqus account, you might want to change your password. The online commenting platform (which powered this site’s comments up until this earlier year), announced that it suffered a security breach in 2012 and that data for about 17.5 million users was compromised.
While the breach happened 5 years ago, Disqus just found out about it on October 5th after being informed by Troy Hunt, who runs the HaveIBeenPwned website.
The company is forcing all affected users to reset their passwords, but it probably wouldn’t be a bad idea for you to do that on your own from time to time.
So what data was obtained by hackers? Usernames, email addresses, sign-up dates, and last-login dates were included. And so were passwords for about a third of the users. Those passwords weren’t in plain text, they were encrypted using an SHA-1 has function with a salt.
While the breach happened 5 years ago, Disqus just found out about it on October 5th after being informed by Troy Hunt, who runs the HaveIBeenPwned website.
The company is forcing all affected users to reset their passwords, but it probably wouldn’t be a bad idea for you to do that on your own from time to time.
So what data was obtained by hackers? Usernames, email addresses, sign-up dates, and last-login dates were included. And so were passwords for about a third of the users. Those passwords weren’t in plain text, they were encrypted using an SHA-1 has function with a salt.
More at the jump:
https://liliputing.com/2017/10/disqus-discloses-2012-security-breach.html
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