Disqus Announces Data Breach On 2012 User Database

[Lucian Armasu]

Disqus announced that hackers have stolen a 2012 database impacting 17.5 million users. Disqus hasn't seen any unauthorized logins and it also reseted everyone's passwords as soon as it found out about the hack, so the accounts should now be safe.

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[poochiepiano]

Wow, releasing the news within 24 hours of discovery and not making shady stock decisions immediately after? You mean companies can do such a thing?

 

[cryoburner]

That, or they knew about it for years, and just kept silent about it until some security researcher discovered the database in the wild, and they had to act surprised. >_>

 

[kookykrazee]

I have not been notified that my password needs to be reset, as of today. hmmm

 

[linuxgeex]

If you used a social login, ie google account, then you didn't have a password to be reset and they may have just invalidated the platform secret so that you needed to authorize it again... many users wouldn't notice that they had to do that, they would just click the auth button and keep posting.