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Google shuts down Google+ for consumers due to bug found months ago

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Google has decided to shut down consumer use of its Google+ social network after an internal privacy review discovered a flaw that exposed non-public profile data through its API, the company announced Monday. Discovered in March, Google found that a flaw in its Google+ People API exposed data including name, email address, occupation, gender and age. The company said it doesn’t have a concrete number on how many people were affected because the API log data is only kept for two weeks at a time. However, during a two-week testing period before the company closed the bug, profiles of up to 500,000 Google+ accounts were potentially affected, and up to 438 applications may have used the API, Google said. “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,” a Google blog post reads. Despite finding the bug in […]

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