Google has agreed to pay $350 million to resolve a shareholders lawsuit from 2018 concerning a vulnerability in its discontinued Google Plus platform, which resulted in third-party exposure of data belonging to millions of users, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future. Such a breach compromised individuals’ full names, birthdates, gender, email and home addresses, profile pictures, occupations, and relationship status, according to a 2018 report from The Wall Street Journal, which noted that the security issue was only remediated in March of the same year despite beginning three years prior.

Source: SC Magazine