Disqus has confirmed its web commenting system was hacked. The company, which builds and provides a web-based comment plugin for news websites, said 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 which has largely been deprecated in recent years in favor of stronger password scramblers. The data also contained sign-up dates and the date of the last login. Some of the exposed user information dates back to 2007. Many of the accounts don't have passwords because they signed up to the commenting tool using a third-party service.
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