Quora, one of the largest question-and-answer portals on the Internet, announced today that hackers managed to gain access to its servers, stealing information from about 100 million users, representing almost half of the site's total number of users.
The company disclosed the breach today, but said it discovered the hack last Friday. Quora is still investigating the incident, but said it has already determined that the hackers had access to the following information:
- Account information (eg name, address email, encrypted passwords, data entered from connected networks authorized by users.)
- Public content and actions (eg questions, answers, comments, upvotes)
- Non-public content and actions (e.g. reply requests, downvotes, direct messages)
"The vast majority of the content was already public on Quora, but the theft of accounts and other personal information is serious," said Adam D'Angelo, CEO of Quora.
"Questions and answers posted anonymously are not affected by the breach, as we do not store the identities of people who post anonymous content," he added.
"It is highly unlikely that this would result in identity theft, as we do not collect sensitive personal information such as credit cards or social security numbers," the company later added on a help page about the incident.
The website has already taken action, disconnecting all users who may have been affected. All users who used any code πρόσβασης για την είσοδο στο account they will have to select a new one to connect.
Quora said it is in the process informationof all the users it believes were affected by the hack, and said that not all users were affected.
The website also said it has already taken steps to prevent any future unauthorized access to its servers. The company said it was still investigating the cause of the breach with a special team, and it notified the authorities immediately.
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