Yandex began to index Google Docs with passwords

It has just become known that Yandex began to index Google Docs, among which there are documents with passwords, personal data, etc.

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It is recommended that everyone check their Google Docs access settings.

UPD: 07/05/2018 1:10 GMT. It has just become known that Yandex has fixed the problem.

UPD: 07/05/2018 1:30 MSK.
It is noticed that in search engines Google , Mail.ru , Bing , etc. you can also stumble upon open documents.

UPD: 07/05/2018 1:45 GMT.
On his page under one of the entries in Vkontakte, a comment from Yandex was published with the following content

Yandex indexes the entire open part of the Internet - those pages that are accessible when clicking on links without entering a login and password. Yandex does not index pages that are indexed by the site administrator in the robots.txt file, even if they are located in the public part of the Internet.

Our security service is now contacting colleagues from Google to draw their attention to the fact that these files may contain private information.

Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/416219/


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