Google says Google Documents is Secure Despite Russian Issue

Google said this week (July 5, 2018) that its document writing tool Google Documents was secure even as Russian internet users discovered scores of files that appeared to be intended for private use.

On Wednesday night, Russian social media users started posting scores of such documents, including an internal memo from a Russian bank, press summaries and company business plans.

The Russian internet company Yandex said in a statement that some users contacted the company Wednesday to say that its public search engine was yielding what looked like personal Google Documents files, suggesting there may have been a data breach. Google said in a statement that search engines can only turn up Google documents that had either been deliberately made public by its authors or when a user publishes a link to a document and makes it available for public access and search. Ilya Grabovsky, a spokesman for Yandex, said its search only yields files that don't require logins or passwords. (Komo 4 News, July 5, 2018)
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