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Alphabet Inc.
GOOG, -1.79%
GOOGL, -2.04%
Shares declined on Monday as a result of a report that Google had not warned hundreds of thousands of users to leave their data exposed. Class A shares of the alphabet fell by 2.5% and class C shares by 2.3% in recent years, while the S & P 500 index
SPX, -0.53%
was down 0.6%. According to the Wall Street Journal, Alphabet was aware of the technical problem encountered last spring with software that exposed data from Google+ social network users, but did not disclose it for fear of reputational damage and regulatory investigations. According to the Wall Street Journal, Alphabet was aware of the technical problem encountered last spring with software that left the data of Google + social network users exposed, without disclosing them, for fear of reputational damage and regulatory investigations. . As a result, Alphabet closes "all the mainstream features" of Google+, which has never become an effective competitor of Facebook Inc.
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