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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...