Le week-end dernier certains utilisateurs de Google Docs ont vu leurs documents partagés accidentellement avec certains de leur contacts n’ayant pas les droits d’accès. Malgré le peu de dégats causés par ce contre-temps, ceci reste une faille technique inquiétante pour certains utilisateurs partageant des données “sensibles”.

Google a reconnu l’erreur et a envoyé une lettre d’excuses aux utilisateurs concernés. Voici la version originale de la lettre (en anglais) :

Dear Google Docs user,

We wanted to let you know about a recent issue with your Google Docs account. We’ve identified and fixed a bug which may have caused you to share some of your documents without your knowledge. This inadvertent sharing was limited to people with whom you, or a collaborator with sharing rights, had previously shared a document. The issue only occurred if you, or a collaborator with sharing rights, selected multiple documents and presentations from the documents list and changed the sharing permissions. This issue affected documents and presentations, but not spreadsheets.

To help remedy this issue, we have used an automated process to remove collaborators and viewers from the documents that we identified as being affected. Since the impacted documents are now accessible only to you, you will need to re-share the documents manually. For your reference, we’ve listed below the documents identified as being affected.

We apologize for the inconvenience that this issue may have caused. We want to assure you that we are treating this issue with the highest priority.

The Google Docs Team

Selon Google (qui a été contacté par Techcrunch), il s’agit la d’un incident isolé concernant moins de 0,05% des documents présents dans Google Docs.

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