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The clock ticking its way to midnight. On New Year’s Eve, a lot of people hope only the best things will happen in 2019. There were though plenty of things to complain about last year. One of the biggest issues seemed to be the massive amount of security breaches involving digital companies and social media […]
After a massive data breach that exposed the profiles of the users, Google announced that it would pull the plug on Google+, its social networking service. Soon another data leak affected the user data, and Google fast-forwarded its plan to shut down Google+. Now, the company has issued a formal timeline as to how the process will be […]
The year 2018 is now a thing of the past yet it has established a memory that will haunt victims of biggest data breaches and hacking incidents for years. Today, we will be discussing some of the biggest data breaches and hacking incidents of 2018 which took users by storm. “2018 not only shocked the world by highlighting […]
Another day, another privacy breach – This time, the social media giant Facebook has announced that a bug in its Photo API exposed private photos of over 6.8 million users to third-party app developers. The breach took place from September 13 to September 25, 2018, which means for 12 days straight some developers could view your […]
Just a day after Google announced a Google+ API leak, which could have impacted many users, a Rhode Island government entity has filed a lawsuit against the global internet giant. We had reported, on December 11, that Google+ had been hit by a bug which could have led to the accounts of about 52.5 million […]
A new Google+ bug that has probably hit the accounts of about 52.5 million users has made Google think of shutting down the service earlier than scheduled. Google had announced in October its plans to shut down the consumer version of Google+; the decision, the company stated, was “…because of the significant challenges involved in […]
Google Plus has been hit by yet another bug forcing the company to shut down the social media site earlier than previously anticipated. In October this year, Google revealed that a bug was present in the API for the consumer version of Google Plus (Google+) that allowed third-party developers to access data of not just over 500,000 users but also […]
Internet giant Google has announced the shutting down of Google+, which was launched seven years ago and which had seen its user base dwindling considerably in recent times. Xinhua reports, “U.S. internet giant Google said Monday that it is shutting down the consumer version of its own social networking site Google+ due to low usage […]
Google has admitted that a bug was present in the API for the consumer version of Google Plus (Google+) that let third-party developers’ access data of not just its users but also of their contacts and friends. Reportedly, data of up to 500,000 users could have been exposed to external developers. The bug was present […]
Google announced the end of its social platform Google+ after a WS Journal reported a detailed the cover-up of a breach that exposed users’ data. Google didn’t disclose the leak for months to avoid a public relations headache and potential regulatory enforcement. On Monday Google published a blog post to detailing the breach and the […]