Quora Gets Hacked – 100 Million Users Data Stolen

The World’s most popular question-and-answer website Quora has suffered a massive data breach with unknown hackers gaining unauthorized access to potentially sensitive personal information of about 100 million of its users.

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Quora says hackers took data on 100 million users

Popular question-and-answer site Quora has discovered that hackers broke into its system and took data on 100 million users. The company announced in a blog post Monday that it discovered user data was compromised by a third party who gained unauthorized access to one of its systems. The company says the data taken included names, email addresses and encrypted passwords, along with data imported from linked social media networks. Data related to the site, including upvotes, downvotes, questions, answers, comments and direct messages could also have been accessed. “The overwhelming majority of the content accessed was already public on Quora, but the compromise of account and other private information is serious,” the blog post reads. The company isn’t sure on the precise cause of the hack, but has retained a third-party digital forensics firm to assist with the investigation. Law enforcement has also been contacted. Quora is still figuring out who […]

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s Quora and Twitter Accounts Hacked

By Ryan De Souza

Google CEO Mr. Sundar Pichai had his Quora account hacked earlier today

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