{"id":25042,"date":"2018-12-11T01:22:59","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T01:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25042"},"modified":"2018-12-11T01:22:59","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T01:22:59","slug":"google-says-google-bug-affected-52-5-million-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25042","title":{"rendered":"Google says Google+ bug affected 52.5 million users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">New York (CNN Business)<\/cite>Google will shut down its Google+ social network much sooner than planned after discovering a second bug that revealed millions of customers&#8217; private information to software developers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.google\/technology\/safety-security\/expediting-changes-google-plus\/\" target=\"_blank\">blog post<\/a>, the company said 52.5 million people<strong> <\/strong>were affected by a bug in a November software update. The latest bug allowed app developers to access profile information not marked public. App developers inadvertently had access to this data for six days. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Google said it detected the issue during regular testing, and fixed it within a week of discovery. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (CNN Business)Google will shut down its Google+ social network much sooner than planned after discovering a second bug that revealed millions of customers&#8217; private information to software developers.In a blog post, the company said 52.5 million people were affected by a bug in a November software update. The latest bug allowed app developers&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":25043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}