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It looks like the ill-fated social network by Google simply can't catch a breath. After they announced its closure in October due to a security breach, being reportedly patched in March but only publicly acknowledged months later, another bug in Google+'s API was found which could lead to a second data leak, exposing private user information to anyone with the right tools and know-how. The issue was fixed within a week of it being found and users were alerted via a blog post, which also states that no third party has taken advantage of it, while there currently is no evidence of app developers gaining access to data they weren't allowed to see:

We’ve recently determined that some users were impacted by a software update introduced in November that contained a bug affecting a Google+ API. We discovered this bug as part of our standard and ongoing testing procedures and fixed it within a week of it being introduced. No third party compromised our systems, and we have no evidence that the app developers that inadvertently had this access for six days were aware of it or misused it in any way.

This discovery has also prompted Google to shut down the affected API in 90 days from now and Google+ for consumers four months earlier than expected, that is in April 2019 instead of August of the same year.

With the discovery of this new bug, we have decided to expedite the shut-down of all Google+ APIs; this will occur within the next 90 days. In addition, we have also decided to accelerate the sunsetting of consumer Google+ from August 2019 to April 2019.

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[Jacklack3]

Can't wait till next month when they say "It seems there were plain text passwords for every google account on the index page so I guess we'll have to close it in 10 days..."

 

[Deleted member 445482]

Can't wait till next month when they say "It seems there were plain text passwords for every google account on the index page so I guess we'll have to close it in 10 days..."

So you see we had an address leak on google + so we will have to close in 5 days...

 

[Jacklack3]

So you see we had an address leak on google + so we will have to close in 5 days...

Guess we forgot to remove the big red button that blows up all of Google headquarters, expect Google+ to close in about a business day.

 

[DuoForce]

It needs to be shut down sooner

 

[Garro]

Why the hate on G+ though? Some people act like G+ killed their parents or something.

 

[Noctosphere]

Why the hate on G+ though? Some people act like G+ killed their parents or something.

as i heard from a wise woman "Did it piss in your cornflakes?"

 

[Deleted-443739]

Yeah. About 5.

yes truly good riddance

 

[Noctosphere]

yes truly good riddance

nice 3months necro