Disqus, the comment service used on millions of web pages and blogs, has been hacked, well, it was hacked in 2012, but they found out this past week.

New hack in cyberspace, in this case it has been in Disqus, the platform that allows comments to be made on blogs and websites, allowing developers to save time in programming and space in databases and on the site itself. Well, the comment platform (that we use on the web) has been hacked and the data of 17 million users has been exposed. The constant hacking of companies and various sites shows that security is complicated and there is always a space where the bad guys sneak in.

If we compare this hack with that of Pordede, it remains a mere anecdote, due to the number of affected, but logically, that personal data is stolen if it is a serious enough problem. The emails of 17.5 million users have been stolen, specifically and the passwords of a third of these stolen accounts have been exposed. Passwords are known to be encrypted, but depending on the encryption, it can be broken. The problem is that if a user has the Disqus password in another service, they could access that other service with the mail without problems. We already explained that you have to create strong passwords and not repeat it.

The only good thing about this is that the Disqus hack was not today, not yesterday, not even a month ago, Disqus was hacked in 2012, so those who created their account later have nothing to fear and those who They access through other services, either. It should be noted that it took five years to realize the hack, something that does not speak very well of the security of this site, but unfortunately, it reminds us a lot of what happened with Yahoo last year, although that was fatter.