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Google+ Bug Exposes Non-Public Profile Data for 52 Million Users

posted by takyon on Wednesday December 12 2018, @03:56PM   Printer-friendly
from the social-servers dept.

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Google+ bug exposes non-public profile data for 52 million users

Two months after disclosing an error that exposed the private profile data of almost 500,000 Google+ users, Google on Monday revealed a new leak that affects more than 52 million people. The programming interface bug allowed developers to access names, ages, email addresses, occupations, and a wealth of other personal details even when they were set to be nonpublic.

The bug was introduced in a release that went live at an undisclosed date in November and was fixed a week later, Google officials said in a blog post. During the time the bug was active, developers of apps that requested permission to view profile information that a user had added to their Google+ profile received permission to view profile information about that user even when the details were set to not-public. What's more, apps with access to users' Google+ profile data had permission to access non-public profile data that other Google+ users shared with the consenting user. In all, the post said, 52.5 million users are affected.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 13 2018, @02:13AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 13 2018, @02:13AM (#773842)

    Google users' data being stolen is like a thief getting robbed. Google coerced the data out of unfortunate users. Should never have given it to (((them))).