Google Webmaster Tools Security Bug Re-Opens Access To Old Accounts

A security bug in Google Webmaster Tools has given users access to old accounts and websites that they’re no longer supposed to be able to access.

Webmaster Tools accounts is that users are finding themselves with sudden access to accounts that they once had access to, but no longer do; i.e., former clients, employers and the like. That bug is presumably giving a lot of power to individuals that shouldn’t have it — power to deindex, disavow links, unverify the current/legitimate webmaster’s access, and even redirect sites to other verified domains in the user’s account. It also reveals a lot of link, search, index/crawl and other data to users that shouldn’t be able to see those things.

 

This is a serious problem and Google’s silence on it so far suggests that they’re still trying to sort out what’s happening and why — and how to fix it.

Google fixed this issue and according to them, Google Analytics was not impacted.