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title: "Quora has been hacked. Note that avoiding the ill effects of breaches…"
date: 2018-12-04
source: facebook
type: Archer T. Ships shared a link.
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# Quora has been hacked. Note that avoiding the ill effects of breaches…

*December 4, 2018 · Facebook*

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[https://blog.quora.com/Quora-Security-Update](https://blog.quora.com/Quora-Security-Update){target="_blank"}
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Quora has been hacked.\
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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.\
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\"For approximately 100 million Quora users, the following information may have been compromised:\
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Account information, e.g. name, email address, encrypted (hashed) password, data imported from linked networks when authorized by users\
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Public content and actions, e.g. questions, answers, comments, upvotes\
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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](https://blog.quora.com/Quora-Security-Update){target="_blank"}
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