Disqus discovers its comments tool was hacked in 2012. 17.5m accounts involved, 2/3rds without passwords.

Disqus has confirmed its web commenting system was hacked. The company, which builds and provides a web-based comment plugin for news websites, said Friday that hackers stole more than 17.5 million email addresses in a data breach in July 2012. About a third of those accounts contained passwords, salted and hashed using the weak SHA-1 Read more about Disqus discovers its comments tool was hacked in 2012. 17.5m accounts involved, 2/3rds without passwords.[…]