17.5 million User Details Stolen from Disqus in 2012
Return To ArticleDisqus, the company which provides a web-based comment plugin for websites and blogs, has admitted that it was breached 5 years ago in July 2012 and hackers stole details of more than 17.5 million users.
The stolen data includes email addresses, usernames, sign-up dates, and last login dates in plain text for all 17.5 million users.
What’s more? Hackers also got their hands on passwords for about one-third of the affected users, which were salted and hashed using the weak SHA-1 algorithm.
The company said the exposed user information dates back to 2007 with the most recently exposed from July 2012.
