Google Docs suffered from a privacy glitch

Google Docs suffered from a privacy glitch

Technology blog TechCrunch has reported that Google suffered a privacy glitch in their Google Docs service.

The problem was related to private documents which were accidentally shared with users who should not have had access to these files.

Google has mailed the users who were affected by this glitch. The company said that they have fixed the problem in their system.

The company has also reset the security settings on these documents so the user would now require to redo the sharing settings.

Google admits that it was an isolated incident affecting less than .05% of all documents.

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