Quora hit by security breach, hackers steal up to 100 million users' data
About 100 million users of Quora
were affected by unauthorized access to one of its systems by a "malicious
third party," the knowledge-sharing website said on Monday.
Account information, including
name, email address, encrypted password and data imported from linked networks
when authorized by users may have been compromised, it said.
The company said it is logging
out all Quora
users who may have been affected to prevent further damage.
"We are in the process of
notifying users whose data has been compromised," Quora CEO Adam D'Angelo
said in a blog post.
The breach, discovered on Friday,
did not affect question and answers that are written anonymously, the company
said, adding that it has also notified law enforcement officials.
"We have retained a leading
digital forensics and security firm to assist us," it said. Read
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