Google has started sending notifications to those affected by it error in Google + API which was revealed in December 2018. The notification contains details about which profile data was exposed, but also which apps had access in these.
On 10 December 2018, Google announced that a bug in the Google + API allowed applications to allow users to view private data on their profile that they normally should not have access to.
According to her announcement companyς, το σφάλμα αυτό επηρέασε πάνω από 50 εκατομμύρια χρήστες.
Since last week, Google+ users who have been affected by this bug have begun receiving notifications from Google that mention which profile fields were exposed and which applications accessed them. The fields exposed as well as the applications are in an attached file called app_details.csv, in accordance with bleepingcomputer.
The company has already decided to terminate the Google + social service in August of 2019 due to its non-interest from users but also one previous error in the API that leaked personal information from 500.000 Google+ accounts.
With the disclosure of the second API bug in December, Google decided to shut down the service against "headaches, headaches." The service will cease to operate in April 2019 while all the functions of the API will be disabled by March 2019.