Google+ Social Media Site To Close After Data Of 500k Users Exposed

Google+ Social Media Site To Close After Data Of 500k Users Exposed

The social media website Google+ will close after the company stated that the data of almost 500,000 users may have been exposed.

On Monday (October 8, 2018), Google Company announced that the consumer version of the social network Google+ will shut down after discovering that data leakage.

The tech giant said that the data of almost 500,000 users may have been exposed to external developers due to a bug existing in the systems for over two years.

Earlier, the social media company choose not to disclose the issue with its Application Program Interfaces (API) because of fear of citing internal documents and unnamed sources.

The company also found no evidence of misuse of users’ data and explained that no developer was aware of the bug.

“We found no evidence that any developer was aware of this bug or abusing the API, and we found no evidence that any Profile data was misused,” the company said quoted by ABS-CBN.

If personal data is breached, a company should notify the supervisory authority within 72 hours, according to the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

The data affected by the issues were limited only to the following profile information including name, email address, occupation, gender, and age.

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