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Quora Users Watch Out – 100 Million Users Details Leaked in Data Breach

Another day, another data breach, it seems. On Friday, Quora became aware of an incident involving an “unauthorised third party” accessing data from 100 million users of the Q&A platform, and yesterday it began to notify users in an attempt to contain the incident. Quora Tweeted late last night, “We have discovered that some user data was compromised by unauthorized access to our systems. We’ve taken steps to ensure that the situation is contained and are notifying affected users. Protecting your information is our top priority” and directed users to a blog post with further information.


“It is our responsibility to make sure things like this don’t happen, and we failed to meet that responsibility”
– Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo

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