Quora Data Breach Exposes 100 Million Users' Personal Info

schwit1 shares a report from CBS News: Information sharing website Quora has announced a data breach which has exposed 'approximately 100 million users'' personal data. The company said in a statement released Monday that it discovered the 'unauthorized access to one of our systems by a malicious third party,' on Friday. Chief Executive Adam D'Angelo wrote in the blog post that Quora had alerted law enforcement authorities and was 'working rapidly to investigate the situation further and take the appropriate steps to prevent such incidents in the future.' D'Angelo said Quora was working to alert the affected users of the site, whose names, email addresses and encrypted passwords, and public content such as their questions, answers and comments, were exposed through the breach. Those users would be required to reset their passwords, D'Angelo said.

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