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Google Denies Security Breach at Google Docs Following Yandex Controversy

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Google has issued a statement denying the integrity of Google Docs was compromised in any way, even equally the Russian media this week reported that many files, supposedly meant for private use, were being indexed by the country's leading search engine, Yandex.

In its statement, Google said Docs remains secure, and contrary to reports, the indexed documents were either deliberately fabricated public by their authors, or a hyperlink for them were published on a publicly accessible platform, making them searchable by spider web-crawlers, including those from Yandex.

"Saving and protecting users' personal data is our master priority. Google Documents is a highly protected tool for joint piece of work and it is working correctly" – Google

The issue came to calorie-free after scores of internet users in Russian federation earlier this calendar week started posting such documents on social media. Many such files apparently contained sensitive information, including a particularly disturbing internal memo from the country'due south Tinkoff Bank that detailed how the company deliberately discriminated against people based on their race, origin and sexual orientation. The bank has since disowned the memo and blamed it on an employee'south indiscretion.

Google Denies Security Breach at Google Docs Following Yandex Controversy

On its office, Yandex has already washed its hands off of the issue, denying that its crawlers always indexed private documents on the cyberspace. According to Ilya Grabovsky, a spokesman for Yandex, the company just indexes "the open up part of the Internet, meaning the pages that are accessible by hyperlink without a login and password". He too claimed that the files in question were also showing upwardly in other search engines.

All the same, within hours of the report coming to light, the company seemingly stopped producing any hyperlinks to Google Docs. Co-ordinate to Meduza, the company didn't offer any satisfactory response for the situation, only said that its security team got in touch with Google post-obit the incident "to draw their attention to the fact that these files may incorporate individual information".

Source: https://beebom.com/google-denies-security-breach-at-google-docs-following-yandex-controversy/

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