Google has warned Google Apps administrators that private Whois records – which list administrative and technical contact information for their domain – have been exposed. The leak, which affects more than 282,000 domains, places contacts for those domains at greater risk of identity theft attacks and spam campaigns, Cisco says. Google blamed the data breach on “a software defect in the Google Apps domain renewal system,” which deactivated related privacy settings. Cisco says it’s akin to paying extra to have one’s name and phone number not included in a public phone book.”]
Source: https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/google-leaked-whois-data-a-8011