Google admits it accidentally sent users’ private videos to strangers

Google alerted some of its Google Photo users that the tech giant accidentally sent their private videos to strangers. The company said the reason was a “technical issue”.
The glitch affected Google’s Takeout service, that allows users to download their data. Google fixed the issue after five days. Users who requested backups between 21 and 25 November potentially received videos that did not belong to them.
“If you downloaded your data, it may be incomplete, and it may contain videos that are not yours. We recommend you perform another export of your content and delete your prior export at this time”, the company said in an apologetic email to its users.
“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”, a Google spokesperson said.
Google claims that fewer than 0.01% of people who exported data during the time period were affected. However, it is unclear how many users are actually affected.