{"id":27178,"date":"2018-12-26T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grapevinemsp.com\/another-huge-hack-this-time-100-million-quora-users\/"},"modified":"2018-12-26T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T16:00:00","slug":"another-huge-hack-this-time-100-million-quora-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grapevinemsp.com\/another-huge-hack-this-time-100-million-quora-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Huge Hack, This Time 100 Million Quora Users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8935\" src=\"https:\/\/sitesdev.net\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/quora-hack-resized.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>Are you a Quora user?\u00a0 If so, you&#8217;re certainly not alone. It is the internet&#8217;s most popular question-and-answer website, which makes it a unique property in the social media ecosystem.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the site recently suffered a massive data breach that exposed the personal information of about one hundred million of the site&#8217;s users.<\/p>\n<p>The Quora team formally announced the breach on Monday, December 10th, 2018. They discovered the previous Friday that an &#8220;unauthorized third party&#8221; gained access to one of its core systems and stole user data on approximately half the site&#8217;s users, which amounts to about a hundred million users.<\/p>\n<p><strong>According to the company, the compromised data included:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>User name<\/li>\n<li>Real name (if different)<\/li>\n<li>Email address<\/li>\n<li>Passwords<\/li>\n<li>Any data that may have been imported from social networks linked to Quroa<\/li>\n<li>Non-public actions, including request, down votes, and private messages sent to other Quora users<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A few things to note about the above:\u00a0 First, although passwords were stolen, they were hashed, which means that the hackers won&#8217;t be able to immediately crack them.\u00a0 Of course they eventually could, but the process will take time.<\/p>\n<p>Second, social network data was only compromised for users who employ the &#8220;Facebook&#8221; or other social media sign-in option.<\/p>\n<p>According to the company:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re still investigating the precise causes, and in addition to the work being conducted by our internal security teams, we have retained a leading digital forensics and security firm to assist us.\u00a0 We have also notified law enforcement authorities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The long and the short of it is that if you use Quora, there&#8217;s at least a 50\/50 chance your password and other data was compromised.\u00a0 To be safe, change your password immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you a Quora user?\u00a0 If so, you&#8217;re certainly not alone. 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