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Quora Hack: 100 Million Accounts Exposed Details Impacting User Privacy

Calendar Dec 04, 2018 • User Avatar Anthony Pell
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It’s not a site that I use often, but I woke up this morning to discover that overnight I had received two emails from Quora. Turns out that over the years I have created two accounts on the Quora question & answer website, which means that I received two email notifications from them that they had been hacked.

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