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Major Privacy Issues in Google+ Force Its Shutdown Earlier than Planned

December 11, 2018

Google+ and its APIs are shutting down sooner than announced after a new privacy glitch that exposed the data of more than 52 million users was detected in November, Google announced on Monday.

Personal information such as age, name and email address was available online for six days before the bug was fixed, but there’s no evidence that developers misused the data. The company assures users that their passwords, financial information and any data that could be used for fraud or identity theft was not compromised.

“We discovered this bug as part of our standard and ongoing testing procedures and fixed it within a week of it being introduced,” Google said.

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