Another data breach has been reported. Quora, a question and answer website, has discovered it's system was "compromised as a result of unauthorized access to one of [their] systems by a malicious third party." They estimate that 100 million Quora users were affected. Quora claims the following information was compromised:
- Account information, such as: name, email address, encrypted (hashed) password, data imported from linked networks when authorized by users
- Public content and actions, such as: questions, answers, comments, upvotes
- Non-public content and actions, such as: answer requests, downvotes, direct messages
As I stated in my article last week on the Marriot breach, I started reporting about data and security breaches over twelve (12) years ago. I am (and I suspect you also are) still waiting for corporations to put in place appropriate security measures to prevent such breaches, and to secure the privacy and personal data of their customers.
=====
Richard L. Kuper
The Kuper Report
