Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo has apologised after hackers stole personal information of over 100 million of its users including their names, email addresses and encrypted passwords.
San Francisco: Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo has apologised after hackers stole personal information of over 100 million of its users including their names, email addresses and encrypted passwords.
Quora discovered the breach on November 30. It found that the breach happened as a result of unauthorised access to one of our systems by a “malicious third party”.
“It is our responsibility to make sure things like this don’t happen, and we failed to meet that responsibility,” D’Angelo wrote in a blog post on Monday night.
Quora was founded by D’Angelo, a former Chief Technology Officer at Facebook, in 2009. The Mountain View, California-headquartered company has over 300 million monthly unique visitors.
The company is in the process of sending emails to users whose data have been compromised and logging out all Quora users who may have been affected.
“We believe we’ve identified the root cause and taken steps to address the issue, although our investigation is ongoing and we’ll continue to make security improvements,” D’Angelo said.
