Google+ – The Titanic got second Iceberg!
Google’s semi-obsolete Social Network platform, Google+, is in the negative spotlight again as it has exposed personal information of around 52.5 million Google+ users second time this year!
Google+ has suffered this ruinous Data Breach for a record second time in consecutive three months. The Tech Giant, Google said in a blog post on Monday that software amendments introduced to Google+ in November 2018 had a bug enclosed in Google+ People API. The Large spread of this Bug in Google+ took place in form of an update released by Google making them the evil eye.
Alas, the fame of Google+ & Google’s efforts to hike up Google+ went down the drain after an API bug was discovered in a code review of Google+ API in October 2018.
Following the incidence, Google dramatically announced its decision to fully shut down Google+ by August 2019. The announcement was made after Wall Street Journal exposed the Bug in Google+ that spilled the beans on the personal data of over 500,000 Google+ users for about 3 years. The bug that was found in Google+ People API was precisely built to permit the access to user’s profile data without user’s consent.
The exposure lasted for six days in October that made 500K Google+ profiles accessible to app developers seeking permission to view data that user had set up to keep private. The private information of users that was leaked includes account holder’s name, e-mail address, occupation, gender & age.
There were no positives that the leaked information was exploited, however, the fear of regulatory investigation made Google put a patch on Bug in Google+ without any delay.
Google+ has suffered this ruinous Data Breach for a record second time in consecutive three months. The Tech Giant, Google said in a blog post on Monday that software amendments introduced to Google+ in November 2018 had a bug enclosed in Google+ People API. The Large spread of this Bug in Google+ took place in form of an update released by Google making them the evil eye.
Insight in to First Pernicious Data Breach of Google+
This Internet-based Social Network was launched by Google in June 2011 in order to serve as a social spine for different services of Google like Adwords and YouTube. Google integrated distinct unique features to Google+ in order to make it stand out of the crowd of popular social networking services.Alas, the fame of Google+ & Google’s efforts to hike up Google+ went down the drain after an API bug was discovered in a code review of Google+ API in October 2018.
Following the incidence, Google dramatically announced its decision to fully shut down Google+ by August 2019. The announcement was made after Wall Street Journal exposed the Bug in Google+ that spilled the beans on the personal data of over 500,000 Google+ users for about 3 years. The bug that was found in Google+ People API was precisely built to permit the access to user’s profile data without user’s consent.
The exposure lasted for six days in October that made 500K Google+ profiles accessible to app developers seeking permission to view data that user had set up to keep private. The private information of users that was leaked includes account holder’s name, e-mail address, occupation, gender & age.
There were no positives that the leaked information was exploited, however, the fear of regulatory investigation made Google put a patch on Bug in Google+ without any delay.
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