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Google+ Shutting Down Over Big Data Leak

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Published on October 9, 2018

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Google+ Shutting Down Over Big Data Leak

Google+ is shutting down, but only the consumer version. Their enterprise version will continue to exist. Over 500K accounts were compromised. Google has accepted that the bug it found in the social networks API could have potentially affected around 500,000 accounts.

Google+ will start winding it down over 10-month period, to be completed by August 2019.

Read the whole story here:

https://www.blog.google/technology/safety-security/project-s...

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