US Disqus Dec 2015 Hacking (Q16756)
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A data breach risk event
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A data breach risk event |
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December 2015
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Disqus is updating its widely-used comments platform after a Swedish tabloid exposed politicians and other public figures for allegedly making highly offensive comments on right-wing websites. The Swedish daily Expressen, working with an investigative journalism group, said it uncovered the identity of hundreds of people who left offensive comments at four right-wing websites through their email addresses. It then confronted the authors of the comments, many of whom freely admitted to writing them. Later on Tuesday, Disqus said its network had not been breached and that it did not leak email addresses. The journalists appeared to have abused a feature it used for a third-party service, it said. Also on CIO.com: What CSOs should do on their first days Hiring an information security vendor? (English)
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