{"id":6074,"date":"2018-12-15T17:13:30","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T22:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/?p=6074"},"modified":"2018-12-15T17:13:30","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T22:13:30","slug":"security-news-this-week-did-quora-get-hacked-top-answer-yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/2018\/12\/15\/security-news-this-week-did-quora-get-hacked-top-answer-yes\/","title":{"rendered":"SECURITY NEWS THIS WEEK: DID QUORA GET HACKED? TOP ANSWER: YES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quora recently acknowledged that they were hacked by a malicious third party. In a classic tale, user data was stolen through a breach. Quora has alerted the authorities. The breach has implications for around 100 million users:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Account information, e.g. name, email address, encrypted password (hashed using bcrypt with a salt that varies for each user), data imported from linked networks when authorized by users<\/li>\n<li>Public content and actions, e.g. questions, answers, comments, upvotes<\/li>\n<li>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)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One interesting find here in my opinion is that Quora uses bcrypt to encrypt passwords. That&#8217;s a pretty standard way that people do it when they build apps. That&#8217;s how I encrypted user passwords this summer at my internship. I guess I expected Quora to have maybe a proprietary way of encrypting passwords. Maybe bcrypt is just that good. I don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/blog.quora.com\/Quora-Security-Update<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quora recently acknowledged that they were hacked by a malicious third party. In a classic tale, user data was stolen through a breach. Quora has alerted the authorities. The breach has implications for around 100 million users: Account information, e.g. name, email address, encrypted password (hashed using bcrypt with a salt that varies for each [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20497,"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":[684819],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6074","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-week-14-maturity-models","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6074","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\/20497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6076,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6074\/revisions\/6076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}