Some Google Photos videos in ‘Takeout’ backups were sent to strangers last November

guest · Feb 4, 2020

Some Google Photos videos in ‘Takeout’ backups were sent to strangers last November
February 3, 2020
https://9to5google.com/2020/02/03/google-photos-video-strangers/

With Google Takeout, you can download your data from Google apps as a backup or for use with another service. Unfortunately, a brief issue with the tool last November saw your videos in Google Photos possibly get exported to strangers’ archives.

Google this evening began alerting Takeout users about the “technical issue.” From November 21-25, 2019, those that requested backups could have had videos in Google Photos “incorrectly exported to unrelated users’ archives.”
In requesting a backup, some of your videos — but not pictures — might be visible to random users that were also downloading their data through Google Takeout.

Whoa, what? @googlephotos? pic.twitter.com/2cZsABz1xb
— Jon Oberheide (@jonoberheide) February 4, 2020
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Another implication is that the Google Photos archive you downloaded during that five-day period is incomplete and missing some of your videos, while strangers’ media might be present [...] According to the company, less than 0.01% of Photos users attempting Takeouts were affected, and no other product was affected.

Google also provided 9to5Google with the following comment this evening:

“We are notifying people about a bug that may have affected users who used Google Takeout to export their Google Photos content between November 21 and November 25. These users may have received either an incomplete archive, or videos—not photos—that were not theirs. We fixed the underlying issue and have conducted an in-depth analysis to help prevent this from ever happening again. We are very sorry this happened.”
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guest · Feb 4, 2020

[Updated with more information] Google shared your private videos with strangers
February 4, 2020
https://mspoweruser.com/snafu-sees-google-sharing-private-videos-with-other-users/

Update: Jon Oberheide, Co-Founder and CTO at Duo Security reached out to Google for clarification after receiving the initial email. To everyone’s surprise, Google noted that the company has little information on what exactly was leaked. In an email, Google told him that they are “not able to provide a full list of impacted videos”.

Asked for more information on what/how many videos were impacted and how many parties they were inadvertently shared with. “Unfortunately, we’re not able to provide a full list of impacted videos” pic.twitter.com/oiTGiM3Wjz
— Jon Oberheide (@jonoberheide) February 4, 2020
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