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Re:The death of Google by foobiekr on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @04:23PM (#18179521)
A source would be great if there is one.
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Re:The death of Google by kenhwang on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @04:31PM (#18179585)
Straight from their announcement https://www.blog.google/technology/safety-security/project-s...

> 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. However, we ran a detailed analysis over the two weeks prior to patching the bug, and from that analysis, the Profiles of up to 500,000 Google+ accounts were potentially affected. Our analysis showed that up to 438 applications may have used this API.

> We found no evidence that any developer was aware of this bug, or abusing the API, and we found no evidence that any Profile data was misused.

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Re:The death of Google by foobiekr on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @11:55PM (#18181830)
thank you
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Re:The death of Google by rconti on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @04:28PM (#18179558)
I don't know about "2 weeks" but it was clear from Google's announcement that they had no idea. I remember this, because it was posted on an HN thread where the poster claimed it was "unexploited" so I went in expecting that, and Google's own words made it clear they had no idea.
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