"Google confessed to a serious bug in its Docs sharing system over
the weekend, but downplayed the security cockup by claiming only a tiny
number of users had been affected.
The internet search kingpin said that less than 0.05 per cent of
Google Docs accounts were hit by a privacy breach after documents were
shared “inadvertently” with other users.
Mountain View said in a blog post,
penned by Docs product manager Jennifer Mazzon, that the security lapse
was “limited to people with whom the document owner, or a collaborator
with sharing rights, had previously shared a document.”
She claimed that very “few users” would have been affected by the
bug “because it only could have occurred for a very small percentage of
documents, and for those documents only when a specific sequence of
user actions took place.”
Google said the error was limited to its Docs system within Google
Apps and did not affect its spreadsheet system, though some
presentations were also hit by the error."
Read more: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/09/google_docs_serious_security_breach/
