Disqus will reset passwords for 17.5 million users... who may have been affected in 2012:
Blog comment service provider Disqus was hacked back in 2012, exposing 17.5 million user email addresses, the firm admitted on Friday.
The breached information also included Disqus user names, sign-up dates and last login dates in plain text, as well as passwords hashed and salted with the crackable SHA1 algorithm for about one-third of users.
The data theft appears to have occurred back in July 2012, with some of the information in the targeted database dating back as far as 2007, according to a blog post from the firm.
Disqus is in the process of notifying those affected and forcing a password reset as a precaution.
Also at Engadget.
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(Score: 2, Funny) by GreatOutdoors on Monday October 09 2017, @10:24PM
Really, I have heard the phrase better late than never, but 5 years later? That's waaaay too long.
Yes, I did make a logical argument there. You should post a logical response.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by slinches on Monday October 09 2017, @10:45PM (1 child)
That's a great explanation for why Disqus comments are usually so shitty. They're spambots on hacked (and non-hacked) accounts.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 10 2017, @12:57AM
If I can not post AC I do not post.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 09 2017, @11:46PM (1 child)
How did we ever converse about things before there was disqus? Oh what ever shall we do?
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 10 2017, @12:37AM
Back to AOL Instant Messenger for me!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 10 2017, @01:04AM (6 children)
What's a "Disqus"? Is that a thing?
(Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Tuesday October 10 2017, @01:12AM
The explanation is right there in TFS, along with a link to their homepage.
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 3, Informative) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday October 10 2017, @01:57AM (2 children)
It's an awesome trolling service. You sign up with a slightly offensive or offbeat name and get to troll hundreds if not thousands of news, information and blog platforms.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday October 10 2017, @02:32PM (1 child)
I used it to hunt semi-literate bigots from Drudge back in the days when I still did such things. You could follow a contentious title from Drudge to a site where there'd invariably be a Disqus forum where scads of alt-right people croaked gems like "socialism = fascism = libruls," or "'Murica-love it or leave it!"
I stopped because those people were simple and broken, mired in muddled hatreds and incapable of saying anything fiercely reasoned in defense of their beliefs. It was boring and sad.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 10 2017, @08:55PM
In your opinion and in retrospect would you say that your digital stalking of those with a different opinion to yourself was essentially and stereotypically fascist? Did any such realization play a part in your decision to stop?
If the word fascist feels like a misnomer to you then would you instead say it was totalitarian? Or did you consider it to be socialist or liberal or part of and justifiable or required or demanded by any other ideology, religion, or conviction? Include convictions such as a sense of innate or extrinsic superiority of conviction of thought, feeling, or "morality".
Do you see any form of equivalence between the justifications that one could assume to be made by a person digitally stalking people whose opinions they object to and a person seeking physical violent confrontation against or murder of people whose opinion they object to?
Posting AC on purpose.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Geezer on Tuesday October 10 2017, @02:52AM
It's an iron Frisbee used in track and field meets. Not as elegant, but it does more damage.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by TheRaven on Tuesday October 10 2017, @09:34AM
sudo mod me up
(Score: 2) by bootsy on Tuesday October 10 2017, @09:17AM (2 children)
We've missed the chance to do this but if we had offered the Soylent News comment engine as a replacement for Disqus I think we could have made money for the site.
The fast loading low JavaScript back end with the improved rating system would be perfect for the Disqus use case of a website wanting to outsource the commenting engine.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 10 2017, @12:22PM (1 child)
So comments from all of those sites would appear here? Brilliant!
Would they be randomly distributed across threads or assigned to only those with low comment counts?
(Score: 2) by bootsy on Wednesday October 11 2017, @09:07AM
You would run an instance of the soylent setup for each site and charge them a flat fee for the service. It would not affect the main site at all.
Disqus made money by doing exactly this but their setup sucked.