Quora Suffers Data Breach, Users' Names, Emails, Encrypted Passwords Exposed

Quora announced a data breach incident which led to the compromise of roughly 100 million users' personal information, ranging from names and email addresses to encrypted passwords and direct messages. 

"We first learned of the issue on November 30. Upon learning about the issue, we immediately launched a comprehensive investigation and remediation effort," says Quora's breach notification.

Quora discovered that a third party who managed to gain access to its computing systems compromised the data of an indeterminate number of users, with some of them impacted more than others.

The knowledge sharing platform notified impacted users about the security incident and will also provide future updates detailing new information it finds about the breach via email.

"We have engaged leading digital forensic and security experts and launched an investigation, which is ongoing," also said Quora. "We have no...