Google has revealed it will be shutting down ‘Google Plus’, the company’s social media platform after a security threat that made private information of about 500, 000 users became vulnerable.
Google vice president of engineering, Ben Smith had said:
“Google looked at the type of data involved, whether we could accurately identify the users to inform, whether there was any evidence of misuse, and whether there were any actions a developer or user could take in response. None of these thresholds were met in this instance,”
