Quora User Data Compromised
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Quora User Data Compromised
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#2Exposed Data:
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Based on what we have learned, some of our users’ information has been exposed, including:
- Account information (e.g. name, email address, encrypted password, data imported from linked networks when authorized by users)
- Public content and actions (e.g. questions, answers, comments, upvotes)
- Non-public content and actions (e.g. answer requests, downvotes, direct messages)
Questions and answers that were written anonymously are not affected by this breach as we do not store the identities of people who post anonymous content.
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#3Who is getting fired? Oh that's right, no one...
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#4Who is getting fired? Oh that's right, no one...
Just got my email from Quroa...Who writes this drivel:
Conclusion
It is our responsibility to make sure things like this don’t happen, and we failed to meet that responsibility. We recognize that in order to maintain user trust, we need to work very hard to make sure this does not happen again. There’s little hope of sharing and growing the world’s knowledge if those doing so cannot feel safe and secure, and cannot trust that their information will remain private. We are continuing to work very hard to remedy the situation, and we hope over time to prove that we are worthy of your trust.
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#5Exposed Data: --- Based on what we have learned, some of our users’ information has been exposed, including: - Account information (e.g. name, email address, encrypted password, data imported from linked networks when authorized by users) - Public content and actions (e.g. questions, answers, comments, upvotes) - Non-public content and actions (e.g. answer requests, downvotes, direct messages) Questions and answers t…
From an email I got
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What information was involved
The following information of yours may have been compromised:
Account and user information, e.g. name, email, IP, user ID, encrypted password, user account settings, personalization data
Public actions and content including drafts, e.g. questions, answers, comments, blog posts, upvotes
Data imported from linked networks when authorized by you, e.g. contacts, demographic information, interests, access tokens (now invalidated)
Non-public actions, e.g. answer requests, downvotes, thanks
Non-public content, e.g. direct messages, suggested edits
Questions and answers that were written anonymously are not affected by this breach as we do not store the identities of people who post anonymous content.
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#6At this point I am operating on the assumption that ALL businesses that have my data are going to inadvertently leak it at some point, and thus I am attemtping to provide individual companies with as little information about me as possible.
The toughest ones here are my online banking and my online health portal, but other than that, I have gotten pretty picky about what information I give any company.
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#7Interesting (to me, at least) that the regular Quora update emails land in my inbox (or in the Social tab in Gmail, anyway), but the security breach notification was spam filtered...
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#9At this point I am operating on the assumption that ALL businesses that have my data are going to inadvertently leak it at some point, and thus I am attemtping to provide individual companies with as little information about me as possible. The toughest ones here are my online banking and my online health portal, but other than that, I have gotten pretty picky about what information I give any company.
If they get your data from brokers they may be building comprehensive profiles about you without your explicit permission.
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#10https://help.quora.com/hc/en-us/articles/360020212652 contains more detail.