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https://blog.quora.com/Quora-Security-Update seems to be misleading, especially the introduction. They start with 'some user data was compromised', however, it seems that for 'approximately 100 million Quora users' – that's basically all users! – all user data was compromised …

In addition, many questions remain open, for example: Which ' leading digital forensics and security firm' is working for Quora?

I hope for Quora that they met their 72-hour deadline according to the GDPR. Looking at https://www.quora.com/about/privacy, it does not look if Quora was / is GDPR-ready. They do not mention any legal basis for the processing (art. 13 GDPR) and they do not inform about their GDPR data representative in the EU (art. 27 GDPR).



I’m going to guess that precisely nothing will happen to them under GDPR.


There can only be one digital forensics and security firm in the lead, right? All of the other firms are trailing...


This is more like "leading experts"––there's no "best expert". Just marketing…




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