100 mln users affected by security breach: Quora

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Updated: 04-12-2018 07:58 IST | Created: 04-12-2018 07:24 IST

Question-and-answer website Quora said on Monday about 100 million of its users were affected by unauthorized access to one of its systems by a "malicious third party."

"We are in the process of notifying users whose data has been compromised," the company said in a blog http://bit.ly/2BQ2fQH post.

Account information, including name, email address, encrypted password and data imported from linked networks when authorized by users may have been compromised, it said.

(With inputs from agencies.)

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