Google Will Shut Down Google+ Four Months Early After Second Data Leak (theverge.com)

Google+ has suffered another data leak, and Google has decided to shut down the consumer version of the social network four months earlier than it originally planned. From a report: Google+ will now close to consumers in April, rather than August. Additionally, API access to the network will shut down within the next 90 days. According to Google, the new vulnerability impacted 52.5 million users, who could have had profile information like their name, email address, occupation, and age exposed to developers, even if their account was set to private. Apps could also access profile data that had been shared with a specific user, but was not shared publicly.

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Doing what Google is best at

[OneHundredAndTen]

Shutting down projects. Either they have the attention span of a six-year-old, or they are largely useless. Another possibility is useless managers (an oxymoron?) desperate to justify their useless jobs.

Re:One sign in - all services?

[jellomizer]

The article said Google+ has been hacked not the Single Sign-in feature.
If someone is going to hack a system, they will rarely ever do it by breaking the login screen, as their are often security holes around it that are for a good hacker, easier then trying to break the most front facing feature.

I expect the real issue with Google+ is Google just stopped caring for it years ago, and just let stuff rot.