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Google Notifies Affected Users of the Private Data Exposed to Third party Developers

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Google Emails Users Affected By Data Breach  Umpteen cyber security issues in Google+ have led to data breaches of millions of customers. The bug in Google+ People API & the decline in the engagement rate of Google+ have triggered the shutdown of this little loved social media platform. Recent research reveals that Google Emails users affected by Google+ API Bug providing the following details: The profile data exposed The third party apps that had access to it. The exposed fields & the associated apps are listed in  details.csv attachment . The full text of the email reads as: Google pulled the plug on its social networking platform  Google + in October last year .  The move came after the company discovered a software glitch that gave third party developers access to Google+ user profile data. In total personal information of around  500,000 Google+ accounts were potentially exposed  even when the relevant information w...

Click2Gov data breach: Financial corporate Cybercrime

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Technological advancements continue to create a friction-less lifestyle in all aspects ranging from the digital workplace to personalized customer experiences. Twenty-five years ago, making cash withdrawal, depositing a paycheck, paying bills meant taking a trip to your bank or service centers, interact with concerned people. This is not all! Lack of online presence also involved a lot of paper clutter, account management, & other cumbersome tasks that caused a lot of inconvenience. Online existence of businesses and services has made our lives a piece of cake. It is deemed as a useful lifestyle innovation. From customer experience standpoint, technologies such as online banking, online bill payment, online travel booking, and flight check-ins reflect an appetite for smoother, instant processes. Online transactions remove almost all inconveniences along the customer journey & provide a stellar customer experience. Technology has enlightened lives in general, but, as we know...

The hay-days of Google+ are over

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Google+ Announced its Shut Down After a Software Glitch exposed Info of 500k Accounts Google Plus, an Internet-based Social Network owned and operated by Google was launched in June 2011. This social media platform experienced a l ot of fanfare in its initial years  and posed as a possible competitor to Facebook. The  service had over 10 million users  just two weeks after its launch. Now, the world has been taken aback by Google’s out of the blue announcement of  Google+ closure . According to the announcement made Google, Google+ would be  fully shut down by August 2019, to allow users to download and migrate their information. What differentiates Google+ from its counterparts? Google+  was created to serve as a  social spine for Google’s disparate services  like Adwords, Youtube etc. Each service provided by Google had access to the features implemented in Google+ refraining the tech giant from implementing the same social features indep...