Discus breached 17.5 million user accounts in 2012, then did everything right about it in 2017
by Cory Doctorow from on (#34J1D)
This weekend, we learned that Discus -- the commenting system we once used here on Boing Boing -- suffered a breach in 2012 in which 17.5m user accounts (email addresses, signup names, account activity dates and some unsalted, weakly encrypted passwords) were stolen. (more")