Monday, October 08, 2018

GOOGLE_ Alphabet shuts down Google+ social network amid data breach

NEW YORK POST

TECH

Alphabet shuts down Google+ social network amid data breach

By Carleton English

October 8, 2018 | 1:53pm | Updated



Google bosses Sundar Pichai (above) and Larry Page would be a good fit for a recasting of this comedy classic -- following the surprise news of how the tech giant kept mum for years about its damaging data breach.
NY Post Photo composite



Goodbye, Google+.

Search giant Google said it is shutting down its little-used social network after it discovered — and reportedly covered up for several months — a “bug” that exposed the private data of hundreds of thousands of users.

The breach at Google’s flopped, seven-year-old bid to challenge Facebook was discovered and fixed in March, but had been open since 2015, The Wall Street Journal first reported on Oct. 8.

Rather than promptly disclose the breach, which affected nearly a half-million users, Google kept mum as executives feared a regulatory clampdown and damage to its reputation, the Journal reported.

With Facebook under siege this spring because of the Cambridge Analytica data-privacy scandal, Google feared the bug would draw “immediate regulatory interest,” according to an internal memo reviewed by the Journal.

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READ MORE: https://nypost.com/2018/10/08/alphabet-shuts-down-google-social-network-amid-data-breach/


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