Earlier today an email from Quora landed in my inbox informing about a data breach.
The mail says:
The following information of yours may have been compromised:
- Account and user information, e.g. name, email, IP, user ID, encrypted password, user account settings, personalization data
- Public actions and content including drafts, e.g. questions, answers, comments, blog posts, upvotes
- Data imported from linked networks when authorized by you, e.g. contacts, demographic information, interests, access tokens (now invalidated)
- Non-public actions, e.g. answer requests, downvotes, thanks
- Non-public content, e.g. direct messages, suggested edits
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Account and user information, e.g. name, email, IP, user ID, encrypted password, user account settings, personalization dataPublic actions and content including drafts, e.g. questions, answers, comments, blog posts, upvotesData imported from linked networks when authorized by you, e.g. contacts, demographic information, interests, access tokens (now invalidated)Non-public actions, e.g. answer requests, downvotes, thanksNon-public content, e.g. direct messages, suggested edits
Public actions and content including drafts, e.g. questions, answers, comments, blog posts, upvotesData imported from linked networks when authorized by you, e.g. contacts, demographic information, interests, access tokens (now invalidated)Non-public actions, e.g. answer requests, downvotes, thanksNon-public content, e.g. direct messages, suggested edits
Had high expectations from Quora but this shows almost nobody is taking security seriously probably because there seems to be no real incentive. Security breaches now seem to be the new normal !