Google will close the Google+ social network four months earlier than the intended date due to a new large-scale data leakage

In early October, Google announced its intention to close its own Google+ social network by August 2019 due to low popularity among users. Then, the company reported a vulnerability found in the API service, due to which the data of 500 thousand users of Google+ were in the public domain for third-party developers, regardless of profile privacy settings.

Google's misfortunes did not end there - this time the company announced that the Google+ social network would close not in August, but in April of next year, and its API will be disconnected within 90 days, writes The Verge . The reason for the acceleration of the Google+ closing process for ordinary users was the detection of a new vulnerability, which threatened the leakage of 52.5 million users.

As explained in the company, due to the vulnerability that existed from November 7 to 13, the users' names, their email addresses, and information about the age and birth of classes could get to the developers. At the same time, the investigation conducted by specialists did not reveal the signs that someone managed to take advantage of the vulnerability to steal data. Nevertheless, Google began to send notifications touched by users and corporate clients.

According to The Verge, this incident did not affect Google's intention to continue supporting Google+ as a corporate service for companies that have a subscription to G Suite.