100 million Users Affected In Data Breach

About 100 million users of Quora were affected by unauthorised access to one of its systems by a "malicious third party" the knowledge sharing website said.



The company is loging out all  quora users who may have been affected to prevent further damage.
We are the process of notifying users whose data has been compromised "Quora ceo Adam D' Angelo said in a blog spot.


We believe we have identified the root cause and taken steps top address the issue , although our investigation is ongoing and are will continue to make security improvements.



In addition to the work being conducted by our internal security teams, we have retained a leading digital forensics and security firms to assist us.



we have also notified law enforcement official.
The breach , discovered but did not affect question and answers that are written anonymously , the company said.


It has notified law enforcement officials.
The Quora inc-owned website was founded in 2009 by D' angels   and Charlie Cheever   two  former Facebook  employees..