Google+ will close four months ahead of schedule due to a second security breach
"What starts badly, badly ends", seems to be the motto most applicable to Google+. The Mountain View company reported in October that the service would be closed because of the late detection of a detected security breach three years later with which developers could access private data from users. Now, because it has found a second security breach that has affected 52.5 million users, Google+ will close in April instead of August, the date when its goodbye was originally planned. Google advances four months the agony of a service that very few use The information that could have been leaked due to a bug in a Google+ API, even for those users who had their status set to private, was the classic one: name, email, occupation, age, etc. In addition, third-party applications could also access profile information shared with other users privately. For the peace of mind of those who have sensitive information in the service, Google states that they have no proof that applicatio...