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09 October 2018

Google to shutter Google+ following undisclosed data exposure

Half a million profiles. In the wake of the report, Google posted that the breach or potential breach resulted from a bug in an API. The company said, “the Profiles of up to 500,000 Google+ accounts were potentially affected. Our analysis showed that up to 438 applications may have used this API.” However, Google contends that there’s no evidence that profile data was misused.