Google is shutting down its Plus social network sooner than expected after second security bug found

Google is shutting down its beleaguered social network sooner than expected in the wake of a new security issue that affected 52.5 million users.

Google Plus received its initial kiss of death in early October, when the company revealed that a security bug had left the accounts of 500,000 users, including their names, email addresses, and occupations, exposed. At the time, Google planned to shut down the social network by August 2019.

But Google wrote in a blog post Monday that it discovered a second bug that allowed private profile information of 52.5 million users to be viewable by developers using one of Google's application programming interfaces, or APIs.

"No third party compromised our systems, and we have no evidence that the app developers that inadvertently had this access for six days were aware of it or misused it in any way," the company writes in its blog post.

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