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New bug forces Alphabet to expedite Google+ API shutdown

New bug forces Alphabet to expedite Google+ API shutdown

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San Francisco, Dec 11 (IANS) Google's parent company Alphabet has announced 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 users' data.
"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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