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Disqus data breach (2012)

In October 2017, the blog commenting service Disqus announced they'd suffered a data breach. The breach dated back to July 2012 but wasn't identified until years later when the data finally surfaced. The breach contained over 17.5 million unique email addresses and usernames.

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Disqus
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17.6M
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Imported from Have I Been Pwned — pending editorial review and translation to French. The summary below is machine-extracted; consult the source for details.

In 2012-07-01, Disqus was affected by a data breach. Approximately 17,551,044 accounts were exposed. In October 2017, the blog commenting service Disqus announced they'd suffered a data breach. The breach dated back to July 2012 but wasn't identified until years later when the data finally surfaced. The breach contained over 17.5 million unique email addresses and usernames.

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  1. haveibeenpwned.comhttps://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#Disqus
  2. disqus.comhttps://disqus.com

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