Ahead of CEO Sundar Pichai’s testimony in front of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, Google revealed Google+ had another data breach, The Washington Post reports. A software update allowed third-party app developers to access the information of 52 million users without their consent for six days in November. The data included names, email addresses, occupations and ages. Google Vice President of Product Management for G Suite David Thacker wrote in a blog post the tech company discovered no evidence any information was misused. Google has also decided to expedite the shutdown of all Google+ application programming interfaces. Meanwhile, Pichai’s written testimony for the hearing has been released. Pichai states Google backs a federal U.S. privacy law and denies the tech company is politically biased. (Registration may be required to access this story.)
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