Google exposed private data of Google+ users, shutting down social network

In a world where there seems to be a new social network data breach every couple of weeks. According to a Wall Street Journal report, a software glitch within Google+ potentially gave third-party developers access to hundreds of thousands of user’s private data.

Following this report being published, Google announced that it found the security hole in part thanks to something the company is calling Project Strobe. To make sure something like this Google+ leak doesn’t happen again, this new initiative is set out to protect user’s privacy and limit the amount of data developers have access to across the web and Android.

According to the WSJ, this vulnerability was live between 2015 and March 2018. Thankfully, according to Google, no developer was aware of the bug, was misusing the API, or had misused private data from user’s profiles.

On top of everything else, Google announced that it would be shutting down Google+ for consumers. The search giant states that the user-facing shutdown will take place over the next 10 months.

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