[BreachExchange] Victims of Google+ Data Breach Finally Get Email Notification

[Destry Winant]

https://www.digitalinformationworld.com/2019/01/google-plus-breach-users-getting-notified.html

Google+ didn’t really go down swinging, which is not at all surprising
when you consider the fact that the social media platform was the
reason that millions of people ended up having their data stolen by
potentially malicious actors.

Google responded to this monumental data breach by planning to shut
Google+ down, but it seems like the data breach is going to continue
to haunt the tech giant at least for the time being. Users of the
social media platform received an email recently that informed them of
the data breach. The only problem with this is that the data breach
occurred all the way in October, and the users received this email on
the 3rd of January.

One reason for this could be that Google had to go through each of the
accounts that were on Google+ in order to ascertain whether or not
they were at risk. Once a batch was discovered to be at risk, emails
would have been sent out which would have informed the users about the
breach so that they could alter their permissions accordingly and make
sure that none of their data went out.

Google+ suffered two data breaches. The first of the two made Google
plan to shut the service down in ten months, but a further breach made
the tech giant throw caution to the wind and plan to close it much
earlier.

An email coming in about a data breach that happened months ago is
actually quite comical, however. People are going to be pretty shocked
that this is the way the data breach is being handled, but some good
that could come out of this is that people are going to become a lot
more weary of tech giants and the security that they provide.