How to identify whether someone is a victim of Quora security breach?

How to identify whether someone is a victim of Quora security breach? 

Quora data breach

As a matter of fact, what we know is that only eight Quora accounts have been breached in the name of Russian hacking. This is not the first time Quora is in the news for a security breach. Earlier this year in February, Quora got affected by an active cyber-attack. As a result of which many people were affected, users' passwords were stolen and published online along with their email addresses and Quora profile information. The hacker or hackers managed to get access to public info of nearly 2 million Quora account holders. But this time the hackers seems to have stolen emails along with passwords of many of Quora's users. But to date, the hackers' claims of compromising Quora have been denied by the Quora officials. Now, it is speculated that those email addresses and passwords were reused by the Quora users. Thus, this might give a false positive that many people are victims of the Quora data breach. In this article, we will discuss an easy way to check whether someone has actually been hacked or not, by using simple Google search. So how to check if you are a victim of Quora data breach?

 Take the following steps to see whether you have been hacked 

1. Go to your Google home page. 

2. Use Google search "Has Quora Been Hacked?" 

3. This should bring up the following results on the search. 

4. Keep on pressing on each result to read the details. For example: "Quora data breach did not occur" 

5. Do you see the X symbol here. Now, it should be a clear indication that someone has not been hacked. Here are some more images that can help you in identifying if you are a victim of Quora data breach. 

4. Another approach to check is to go to Quora website and make sure your password is unique for each Quora account. 

5. Note down the URL for each of your Quora accounts. The link, which you would have collected from your personal inbox/email/etc, should be unique for every email you have for each Quora account. In case you have not changed your password to that particular account, then you might be victim of the Quora data breach.

 It is pretty simple to check if your email address is on the list or not. Take the following steps to check if you are a victim of Quora data breach. 

1. Make sure that you have deleted all emails associated with that particular Quora account. 

2. Then click on the 'Mail Archive' link to see if any emails are present from that particular account.

 3. If any emails are there, then you might be a victim of the Quora data breach. Since the Quora hackers claim to have only 8 email addresses/password hashes that are related to each account, it is easier to verify if you were a victim of Quora data breach. 

Takeaway

 As a matter of fact, many people fell victim to this Quora data breach. But we have checked that in order to verify if you are a victim, you need to use the Google search. What is your view on the security breach and how would you use this tip to check if you were a victim of Quora data breach? Please share your views by commenting below.