What happened at Google?

What happened at Google?

A software vulnerability in the Google+ social media network gave third-party developers potential access to users’ private Google+ profile information for more than three years. Google ran tests to determine the impact of the vulnerability and found 496,951 users who had shared private profile data with a friend could have had data accessed by an outside developer, according to published reports.
If you have a Google+ profile, here’s the information that may have been exposed:

  • Full names
  • Email addresses
  • Birth dates
  • Gender
  • Profile Photos
  • Places lived
  • Occupation
  • Relationship status
Google says there is no evidence that any data has been misused, at the time of this writing. Since Google+ stores a limited set of activity logs, it is unable to determine the profiles that were affected.