Security News > 2020 > February > Google Shared Private Videos With Wrong Users

The bug, which Google describes as a technical issue, was triggered when users requested a Google "Download your data" export.

In the notification sent to the impacted users, Google reveals that those who used Takeout to download their data might have ended up with someone else's videos in their Google Photos backups.

"Unfortunately, during this time, some videos in Google Photos were incorrectly exported to unrelated users' archives. One or more videos in your Google Photos account was affected by the issue," Google wrote in the notification.

"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," a Google spokesperson told SecurityWeek.

"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," Google also said, noting that less than 0.01% of Google Photos users were impacted by the incident, and that the bug "Did not impact other data type of the data users can download via Takeout."

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