Quora says 100 million users hit by security breach


  • TECH
  • Tuesday, 04 Dec 2018

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About 100 million users of Quora were affected by unauthorised access to one of its systems by a “malicious third party”, the knowledge-sharing website said on Dec 3.

Account information, including name, email address, encrypted password and data imported from linked networks when authorized by users may have been compromised, it said.

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