Quora Data Breach Exposes 100 Million Users' Personal Info (cbsnews.com)

schwit1 shares a report from CBS News: Information sharing website Quora has announced a data breach which has exposed "approximately 100 million users'" personal data. The company said in a statement released Monday that it discovered the "unauthorized access to one of our systems by a malicious third party," on Friday. Chief Executive Adam D'Angelo wrote in the blog post that Quora had alerted law enforcement authorities and was "working rapidly to investigate the situation further and take the appropriate steps to prevent such incidents in the future." D'Angelo said Quora was working to alert the affected users of the site, whose names, email addresses and encrypted passwords, and public content such as their questions, answers and comments, were exposed through the breach. Those users would be required to reset their passwords, D'Angelo said.

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The site annoyingly makes you create an account

[ZorinLynx]

Even if you're not going to contribute anything, you're forced to create an account to keep browsing. I wonder how many of those 100 million accounts are throwaways used to browse the site. I know mine is!

Websites shouldn't force read-only users to create accounts. Not only is it annoying, but it wastes resources on your servers and now you have more accounts to potentially get hacked.

Another data breach

[BringsApples]

So many data breaches lately, makes me wonder if eventually everyone's data will be worthless. And then what??? Most of the propellant of today's society has to do with gathering personal data. If personal data turns out to be worthless, we're talking a shit-storm of problems for a society that's built around it.