Why Google Plus is shutting down

Google Plus is Shutting down 

Google is shutting down its Plus social network sooner than expected after discovering a second security bug.

• Google is shutting down its Plus social network in April 2019, instead of August as originally planned, because of a new security bug.
• The most recent bug affected 52.5 million users and made private profile information available to third-party apps.
• Google says that it has no evidence that the data was accessed or misused, and that it didn't include sensitive information like passwords or financial data.

when the company revealed that a security bug had exposed the account information of 500,000 users, including their names, email addresses and occupations. At the time, Google planned to shut down the social network by August 2019.

Google said that the bug did not give third-party apps access to users' financial data or passwords and that it didn't find any evidence that the private profile information was accessed or misused. However, it now plans to shut down Google Plus by April 2019, and access to its APIs in the next 90 days.