Quora has been hacked. Note that avoiding the ill effects of breaches…

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https://blog.quora.com/Quora-Security-Update
Quora has been hacked.

Note that avoiding the ill effects of breaches like this is an important use case for anonymous cryptocurrencies. If a site only has your throwaway email, then it doesn't matter nearly as much if they get hacked.

"For approximately 100 million Quora users, the following information may have been compromised:

Account information, e.g. name, email address, encrypted (hashed) 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 (note that a low percentage of Quora users have sent or received such messages)
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https://blog.quora.com/Quora-Security-Update