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New bug forces Alphabet to expedite Google+ API shutdoown
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IANS | 11 Dec, 2018
Google's parent company Alphabet has decided to expedite the shutdown of
the consumer version of its social networking platform Google+ and its
APIs (application programming interfaces) after it discovered a new bug
that impacted approximately 52.5 million users.
"With the
discovery of this new bug, we have decided to expedite the shutdown of
all Google+ APIs; this will occur within the next 90 days.
"In
addition, we have also decided to accelerate the sunsetting of consumer
Google+ from August 2019 to April 2019. While we recognise there are
implications for developers, we want to ensure the protection of our
users," David Thacker, Vice President, Product Management, G. Suite,
said in a statement late Monday.
In October, the Internet giant
said it was shutting down the consumer version of Google+ due to low
usage and a bug discovered in March 2017 that could leak the data of
about half a million of its users.
"We've recently determined
that some users were impacted by a software update introduced in
November that contained a bug affecting a Google+ API," said the
company.
However, Google said the bug did not give developers
access to information such as financial data, national identification
numbers, passwords, or similar data typically used for fraud or identity
theft.
"No third party compromised our systems, and we have no
evidence that the app developers that inadvertently had this access for
six days were aware of it or misused it in any way," it added.
APIs allow developers to link different services together to form larger apps or services.
Google said it was in the process of notifying any enterprise customers that were impacted by this new bug.
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