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Quora Hacked - 100 Million User's Data Exposed
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Source
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/quora-hacked-100-million-users-data-exposed/
Parties Involved
Quora
,
Severity
Medium
Disclosed Publicly
December 3, 2018
Initial Discovery
November 30, 2018
Leaked Information
Names, email addresses, encrypted passwords (hashed using bcrypt with a salt that varies for each user), data imported from linked networks
Attack Vector
Data Breach
Tags
PII
December 3, 2018
Quora Hacked - 100 Million User's Data Exposed
Press Coverage
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/quora-hacked-100-million-users-data-exposed/
December 4, 2018
Quora Security Update
Official Statement
https://blog.quora.com/Quora-Security-Update