Google has already declared that its ambitious social media platform, Google+, will be shuttered down by August next year and the reason behind this is a security flaw in the past that revealed users’ profile data in Google search. Now, the scheduled shutdown has been brought ahead by four months, citing another (potential) major security breach.
Google notes that this bug existed for six days before it was remedied. Therefore, despite denying any leakage of more sensitive data from Google+, the company insists that it wants to avoid repercussion or unwanted consequences related to any misuse of users’ data – hence, the early shutdown.
