COVID-19 Update: Artonezero are still operating as normal from home. Read more

Blog

Back to all blogs

Google+ is shutting down early after second bug is revealed

Google + is shutting down early after second bug is revealed

Google has announced that it will be shutting down the Google + social network much sooner than planned after a second bug was discovered that revealed millions of customers’ private data to software developers.

In a blog post published on the 10th December 2018, Google confirmed that approximately 52.5 million people were affected by a bug in a November software update.

The latest bug allowed profile information not marked as public to be accessed by software developers.

Google said that the bug was discovered as part of their standard ongoing testing procedures and fixed it within a week of it being introduced.

Google said that they have no evidence that no third party compromised their systems and that the app developers that inadvertently had this access for six days were aware of it or misused it in any way.

Google disclosed a similar bug in October 2018. The bug was discovered in March 2018, and a report in the Wall Street Journal says that Google did not disclose the information sooner because it feared regulatory scrutiny.

This is the second privacy issue in two months and Google have announced they will shut down Google + in April 2019, rather than their original plan of August. API access for developers will be shut down within the next 90 days.

Author

James O'Connell

Date

11th December 2018

Reading Time

1 minute

You may also like...

First impressions count – How to improve your website design

According to research by Peep Laja the founder of ConversionXL, one of the leading conversion optimization experts in the world, it takes about 50 milliseconds, (that’s 0.05 seconds) for visitors to form an opinion about your website, that determines whether they like your site or not and whether they’ll stay or leave. So the purpose of this article is to explain what you need to do with your website to make sure it creates a good first impression and your hard earned search engine marketing doesn’t go to waste.

Lead Generation

Aug 13, 2015

Keep your eye on these SEO trends in 2020:

When managing a website, it’s important enough to optimise its SEO; however, as SEOs, we have to keep an eye on the times.  Google has changed its search feature over the last 12 months, which had a knock-on effect on how we produce and manage our campaigns.  Let’s look at the SEO trends we should […]

Artonezero

Feb 21, 2020

Is PPC right for your membership association website?

Pay-per-click advertising (PPC) is an effective way of driving new members to your membership association website. As the name suggests, you pay each time someone clicks on one your ads from a search engine and arrives at your website. In this article, we are going to look at why you might use PPC for your membership organisation website, some common issues, and how you can get started on your first PPC campaign.

Digital Marketing

Nov 13, 2018

Some of our work

We'd love to hear from you!

Email anytime, or call us on 020 301 103 90 during office hours.

Close