The personal data of some 100 million people who have used Quora, a popular question and answer website, has been compromised, the company disclosed Monday. "We recently discovered that some user data was compromised as a result of unauthorized access to one of our systems by a malicious third party," wrote Quora CEO Adam D'Angelo in an online post. "We are working rapidly to investigate the situation further and take the appropriate steps to prevent such incidents in the future," he added. The intrusion -- which was discovered Friday, D'Angelo noted -- placed the following information of Quora users at risk: Account information, such as name, email address, hashed password and data imported from linked networks when authorized by users; Public content and actions, such as questions, answers, comments and "upvotes"; and Non-public content and actions, such as answer requests, downvotes and direct messages. "It is high...
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