To be fair, there were probably only a few users actually still using Google+ and this breach was just a nice excuse to kill it off. Now where will Alex Jones go to spread his mouth diarrhea!
Google has already stated that Google+ was pretty much dead with 90 percent of users spending less that five seconds on the social network per second. I have a feeling that most of those logged in in did so by accident by tapping the wrong icon on the Android device.
As for the breach, Google found that a specific Google+’s People API allowed outside apps to access user data on Google+ that wasn’t made public by the user, or accounts that were set to private. The data accessed was relegated to occupation, email address, names, age and gender.
In a blog post Google addressed the issue saying “We made Google+ with privacy in mind and therefore keep this API’s log data for only two weeks. That means we cannot confirm which users were impacted by this bug.”
While Google+ is dead for general users the social platform will continue on as a service for Enterprise users which is where the product really has a solid user base.
Source: Google
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