Article 34J1D Discus breached 17.5 million user accounts in 2012, then did everything right about it in 2017

Discus breached 17.5 million user accounts in 2012, then did everything right about it in 2017

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Cory Doctorow
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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")

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