Quora got hacked

One of the internet's biggest question and answer website, quora.com was hacked recently. They sent me an email stating that my personal data may have been compromised. The email stated:

We are writing to let you know that we recently discovered that some user data was compromised as a result of unauthorized access to our systems by a malicious third party. We are very sorry for any concern or inconvenience this may cause. We are working rapidly to investigate the situation further and take the appropriate steps to prevent such incidents in the future.

This the standard way of saying that "Hello dear member, our system got hacked and the hacker stole your personal information you stored on our service". The email further stated:

"The following information of yours may have been compromised:

• Account and user information, e.g. name, email, IP, user ID, encrypted password, user account settings, personalization data

• Public actions and content including drafts, e.g. questions, answers, comments, blog posts, upvotes

• Data imported from linked networks when authorized by you, e.g. contacts, demographic information, interests, access tokens (now invalidated)

• Non-public actions, e.g. answer requests, downvotes, thanks

• Non-public content, e.g. direct messages, suggested edits"

In other words, almost everything a user stores on Quora. But it is good that only encrypted passwords were hacked not the actual ones. Cause people often use the same password on multiple sites. Since the hacker got access to only the encrypted keys, he won't be able to view the real passwords.

If you have a Quora account, you should change your password immediately.