Google has officially released patches for two serious vulnerabilities that compromised privacy on YouTube.
As Bleeping Computer reports, hackers could exploit them to gain access to users’ email addresses without their permission, which poses a serious security risk.
Given many people use the same email address for Gmail, Google Maps, Google Pay and all of the company’s other online services, the problem had the potential to be much more widespread.
The flaw has been around for a while, having first been reported on 24 September. But it was finally fully patched on 9 February, and according to Google, there’s no evidence that any of its services are being actively exploited by any hackers.
If you use Google services on the web, these will have been updated automatically. However, if you use the mobile apps, it’s a good idea to update them all to the latest versions.
This article originally appeared on our sister publication M3 and was translated and adapted from Swedish.
