It seems that the last months and years have literally been a blessing in disguise for leaks of users' personal data from social networks. After the scandal FacebookGoogle has admitted to a huge long-term leak. Its Google+ network allowed app developers to obtain private user information for about three years. Although Google's social network is not very popular, the leak could affect up to 500 of its users. For this reason, Alphabet, which owns Google, has decided to cancel Google+.
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The Wall Street Journal was the first to report on the possible leak of user data. According to its sources, both the number of affected users and the fact that Google knew about the leak since around March of this year but decided to keep it a secret are striking. Google is said to have decided to “hide” it mainly because of concerns about possible sanctions from regulators who would step on it after announcing the problem. In March, the world was also dealing with the scandal surrounding FacebookAnd if Google were to come up with a similar problem, it could also have very unpleasant consequences for it.
Although Google commented on the whole situation after the publication of the report by the above-mentioned newspaper, stating that according to its investigation there was no misuse of the leaked data, it decided instead to end the operation of its social network for public users. This will happen in August next year, i.e. after eight years of operation. However, for companies, the network will continue to work, of course with the security holes fixed.
Gooogl will be our broom one day.
Well skynet was just started :-D
It's interesting that I read on another portal that no data was leaked, it just contains 3 years of some kind of error that can't be fixed, but that no one has attacked Google+, interesting :D
Interesting, that's why Google kept it so secret. No one had to hack it, all the app developers had access to it. So surely even Google itself doesn't know how much was leaked and because nothing was done, nothing at all nestHello, I'd rather have the service...