Google Plus to Shut Down: What Small Businesses Need to Know

Google made the announcement on October 8, the same day as a Wall Street Journal story outlining that the data of a half million users was exposed.  Google knew about the security issue back in March 2018, but elected not to disclose it to users.Within hours of the story, Google came out with an announcement acknowledging the issue, but defending its actions.  In the same announcement it said it was closing Google+ down in 10 months’ time.Google Vice President Ben Smith said in a statement that the data was exposed through an API used by third party apps.  An API is a technical means of transferring data from one software program to another.