Security Breaches

The data security breaches occurred/disclosed in October 2017. Disqus The popular commenting system was breached in 2012. Disqus got notified by Troy Hunt, a security expert, who obtained a copy of the data. According to the company, the data exposed are from 2007 and involve 17.

This post was published when this blog was also in French. This post is available in English. Septembre 2017 a été un mois intéressant pour plusieurs brèches importantes de sécurité. Nous avons tous appris la valeur de nos informations personnelles. À partir de maintenant, je vais publier un billet mensuel au sujet des brèches importantes de sécurité du mois précédent.

September 2017 has been an interesting month for many important security breaches. We all learned the value of our personal information. From now, I will publish a monthly post about the major security breaches from the previous month. Equifax Equifax is a consumer credit reporting agency and they had a recurrent unauthorized access to their systems from May 13th to July 30th.