{"id":6017,"date":"2018-12-06T16:34:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T21:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/?p=6017"},"modified":"2018-12-06T16:35:10","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T21:35:10","slug":"6017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/2018\/12\/06\/6017\/","title":{"rendered":"Quora Gets Hacked \u2013 100 Million Users Data Stolen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Quora<\/b>\u00a0has suffered a massive data breach with unknown hackers gaining unauthorized access to potentially sensitive personal information of about 100 million of its users.\u00a0They announced that an unidentified malicious third-party managed to gain unauthorized access to one of its systems and stole data on approximately 100 million users\u2014that&#8217;s almost half of its entire user base.<\/p>\n<p>According to Adam D&#8217;Angelo, the chief executive officer and co-founder of Quora, the personal user information compromised in the breach includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Account information<\/b>, such as names, email addresses, encrypted (hashed) passwords, and data imported from linked social networks like Facebook and Twitter when authorized by users.<\/li>\n<li><b>Public content and actions<\/b>, like questions, answers, comments, and upvotes.<\/li>\n<li><b>Non-public content and actions<\/b>, including answer requests, downvotes, direct and messages (note that a low percentage of Quora users have sent or received such messages).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Quora said it is still investigating the breach and assured its users that it working rapidly to &#8220;take the appropriate steps to prevent such incidents in the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2018\/12\/quora-hack.html\">https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2018\/12\/quora-hack.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quora\u00a0has suffered a massive data breach with unknown hackers gaining unauthorized access to potentially sensitive personal information of about 100 million of its users.\u00a0They announced that an unidentified malicious third-party managed to gain unauthorized access to one of its systems and stole data on approximately 100 million users\u2014that&#8217;s almost half of its entire user base. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20416,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[717573],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-week-13-disaster-recovery-business-continuity","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20416"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6017"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6019,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6017\/revisions\/6019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}