After announcing in October it would be shuttering Google+, its little-loved social media site, Google today announced that, thanks to yet another security flaw, the end would have to come much sooner than originally expected. The site will now shut down completely in April, rather than August, and access to the API network will be cut off in the next 90 days. What could have happened to make Google hit the proverbial panic button? How about a bug that affects over 50 million users? According to David Thacker, Google’s VP of product management, a November software update contained a security bug…

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