Google+ Will Have Only 4 Months To Go Before Its Official Shutdown

Users don’t seem to have much time to experience the consumer version of Google+ when the tech giant has noticed the shutdown of the social network in April 2019. That means Google+ will have 4 months to go before officially stopping all of its operations.

If you still remember, the previously planned time Google said to the public would by August 2019. However, the latest data leak with as many as 52.5 million victims brought Google+ to the earlier death. All the information of its victims including name, occupation, age, and email address were public to developers. The vulnerability affected both public accounts and private ones. Even when users shared their own profile data with another user, the data could be accessed by apps.

Two months ago, Google+ network reportedly had a vulnerability that revealed the private data from its users to developers. It operated in at least 3 years, and October was not the first time Google knew about its existence. In fact, the company identified this vulnerability in March and has said nothing regarding this case.

After a long time, the social network has had efforts on grabbing users’ attention but not really successful, Google decided to shut down Google+ 4 months earlier than it initially expected.

As per the vulnerability found by Google itself on November 7^th, it lasted in only 6 days (until November 13^th), but the left consequences were not small at all. Google’s vice president of project management, David Thacker unveiled on the blog post that users couldn’t access to APIs after 90 days since the shutdown of Google+. Due to the latest vulnerabilities in correlation with developers, the company will focus more on protecting its users.

According to the revelation from Google, the application developers didn’t seemingly know about the existence of this vulnerability and make use of it to benefit themselves. At present, those victims including enterprise customers and other users, have received the notification regarding the bug.

Along with continuing the investment in privacy programs, Google has still offered its social network, Google+, as an enterprise version which aims to subscribers of G Suite service.