Google announced the upcoming closure of the social network Google+ for ordinary users. It will be available to the public from August 2019.
At the same time continue to work a corporate version of the social network as a honor package G Suite. According to the company, launched in 2011, the social network did not win popularity among users. 90% of visits to Google+ last less than 5 seconds. Closer to closing time, Google plans to alert users about how to download your content from Google+.
Interestingly, the main reasons for the closure of the social network Google indicates not low popularity, and a massive vulnerability. It was discovered during the inspection, which was conducted by the Google team Project Strobe from the beginning of 2018.
Experts have discovered that the third-party developers can access user accounts for Google+, even if it was not marked as public. The developers could learn a user name, email address, gender, age, as well as to profile pictures. At the same time had no access to the correspondence and phone numbers from your contacts list.
The vulnerability could affect nearly 500 Google+, but Google found no signs that their personal data was used by third parties.