{"id":288212,"date":"2018-12-04T11:18:11","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T09:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=288212"},"modified":"2018-12-04T11:18:41","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T09:18:41","slug":"massive-data-breach-at-quora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/288212-massive-data-breach-at-quora.html","title":{"rendered":"Massive data breach at Quora"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quora CEO Adam D&#8217;Angelo has <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.quora.com\/Quora-Security-Update\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>confirmed<\/strong><\/a> that over 100 million registered Quora users had their personal information accessed by an unauthorised third party.<\/p>\n<p>The breach, which Quora discovered on 30 November, accessed account information including email addresses, encrypted passwords, public content such as questions and answers, and private content including direct messages.<\/p>\n<p>To combat this breach, Quora logged all users out, and forced all accounts using a password as authentication to reset it.<\/p>\n<p>Quora is still investigating the exact cause of the breach, and has acquired the services of digital forensics teams to assist in this process.<\/p>\n<p>Anonymous questions and answers were not affected by the breach because Quora doesn&#8217;t store the information of anonymous contributors.<\/p>\n<p>Quora users that were affected by the breach can expect an email from the website, outlining all of the relevant details.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/287912-50000-printers-hacked-to-tell-people-to-subscribe-to-pewdiepie.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">50,000 printers hacked to tell people to subscribe to PewDiePie<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quora CEO Adam D&#8217;Angelo has confirmed that over 100 million registered Quora users had their personal information accessed by an unauthorised third party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":288220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[55800,14575,19987],"class_list":["post-288212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-data-security","tag-hack","tag-quora"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288212"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288290,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288212\/revisions\/288290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}