2018 — Google: According to a press release, Alphabet Inc, 500K records
Data compromised
Personal information
Technical writeup
According to a press release, Alphabet Inc. is shutting down the social network Google+ following discovery of a bug affecting the profiles of nearly 500,000 users.Underlining this, as part of our Project Strobe audit, we discovered a bug in one of the Google+ People APIs:Users can grant access to their Profile data, and the public Profile information of their friends, to Google+ apps, via the API.The bug meant that apps also had access to Profile fields that were shared with the user, but not m
Root cause
Unintended disclosure