Click here to see more …A number of users have received alerts from Google, as shared by a Twitter user called “julishwa,” informing them of the specific fields of knowledge that were exposed to external apps as well as which apps these are. While the Api bug theoretically allowed such apps to access profile information such as name email addresses occupation age gender nickname birthday etc., not many of the external apps took advantage of the security hole as nearly none realized it before Google’s engineers. This is why the number of users who have actually been impacted by 3rd party app developers and had their profile data accessed is relatively low. .133 Figure 1 Google message received and shared by julishwa These users are now urged to review their security preferences and decide on the applications which will be given access to their account information. That is until March 2019, the date on which Google will remove all Api features followed by the closure of the mobile social media platform Google Plus in April 2019. From then on the software will continue as a collaborative business suite while security issues such as the above make this field particularly challenging for Google.