Google+ Agrees $7.5 Million Settlement for Data Breach

07/01/2020 | MediaPost

Google has agreed to pay $7.5 million to resolve a consumer class-action lawsuit over data leaks that exposed the personal data of up to 500,000 Google+ users to third-party developers. Google has since closed its social network platform. 

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