At least two U.S. states and two European Union member states are investigating a breach at Google that may have exposed private profile data of at least 500,000 users to hundreds of external developers.
The investigations follow Google’s announcement on Oct. 8 that it would shut down the consumer version of its social network Google+ and tighten its data-sharing policies after a “bug” potentially exposed user data that included names, email addresses, occupations, genders, and ages.
