Victims Received An Apology From Quora CEO Right After The Breach Was Public

CEO Adam D’Angelo of question-and-answer company Quora offered an apology for the security breach with more than 100 million affected users who were hacked sensitive information like email addresses, encrypted passwords, and identities.

The first time Quora revealed this breach was on November 30 when a “malicious third party” accessed one of its systems illegally. On Monday, D’Angelo admitted in a blog post that the California-based company didn’t ensure the safety for its users’ privacy data as expected.

As per CEO Adam D’Angelo, he used to work as Facebook’s Chief Technology Officer before founding the Q&A website Quora in Mountain View, California 9 years ago, in 2009. Until now, the company has welcomed more than 300 million visits per month.

To protect its affected users from hackers, Quora has taken actions quickly and warned them via emails. The company stated that it found the primary cause of the breach and had the rational strategies to deal with the issue. Besides, Quora still keeps investigating further and focuses on improving the security system of its website.

D’Angelo uncovered that Quora’s internal security teams were in partnership with a firm that ranks top in the digital forensics and security aspects to bring the safer online environment to its users. Law enforcement officials are also the ones to take part in this campaign.

The good news for those who posted questions & answers anonymously was that they weren’t victims of the security breach. It was due to Quora not saving anonymous users’ identities.

Suffering the same destiny with the company, hotel chain Marriott had also hacked its reservation system for guests a few days ago, and as a result, 500 million of its guests became victims of this issue.

According to Check Point Software Technologies, websites and companies which had big data on their customers have become the principal targets of hackers. However, in the Quora case, it’s lucky that its users didn’t get lost financial information and they can set new passwords instead of stolen ones. Using Facebook or Google accounts to access the website Quora is another choice to consider.

The Enterprise Cyber Security platforms firm Lucideus listed there were over 16% data of online users affected in the two cases of Marriot and Quora.