Google reports that it has repaired a security issue in its Orkut social networking site that allowed a worm to propagate among at least 400,000 Orkut users.
“Google takes the security of our users very seriously. We worked quickly to implement a fix for the issue recently reported in Orkut. We also took steps to help prevent similar problems in the future. Service to Orkut was not disrupted during this time”, said one of the Google’s official spokesperson in an email response.
Orkut, Google’s first initiative at social networking, was launched in January 2004 and named after its creator and Google employee, Orkut Buyukkokten. The site is reported to have more than 67 million registered users across the globe. Rout however lags behind the most popular social networking websites MySpace that boasts 110 million users.