{"id":4706,"date":"2017-10-09T22:59:02","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T02:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/?p=4706"},"modified":"2017-10-09T22:59:02","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T02:59:02","slug":"commenting-plugin-disqus-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/2017\/10\/09\/commenting-plugin-disqus-hacked\/","title":{"rendered":"Commenting plugin Disqus hacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, it was revealed that a popular commenting system used by many websites called Disqus was breached in 2012, compromising the information of over 17.5 million users. Apparently, it went unnoticed for 5 years until this past Thursday when the incident was discovered by an independent security researcher. It is likely that the information obtained (including SHA-1 hashed passwords) could be used in social engineering attacks on certain users. Disqus has made several security upgrades in the years since, including switching to a more secure password hashing algorithm, but this story is still developing as their investigation into the incident continues.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2017\/10\/disqus-comment-system-hacked.html\">https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2017\/10\/disqus-comment-system-hacked.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, it was revealed that a popular commenting system used by many websites called Disqus was breached in 2012, compromising the information of over 17.5 million users. Apparently, it went unnoticed for 5 years until this past Thursday when the incident was discovered by an independent security researcher. It is likely that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17283,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[715997],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4706","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-week-06-project-portfolio-management","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17283"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4707,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4706\/revisions\/4707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}