Some of your videos in Google Photos might have being sent to strangers through Takeout backup.

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Google acknowledged the fact that when users requested a backup in Takeout during November 21st to November 25th last year, some of the videos in their Google Photos backup were sent to some other strangers or might've received other strangers videos into their Backup.

Google sent E-mails concerning this issue to the users who use Takeout and informed them about this technical issue, Google said in the email that the issue was resolved and backups that were made during November 21st to 25th were only affected by the technical issue, if you didn't initiated any backup in Takeout during that period, there's nothing to worry.

Google says in the E-mail

"Unfortunately, during this time, some videos in Google Photos were incorrectly exported to unrelated users' archives. One or more videos in your Google Photos account was affected by this issue."

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Google says that if you downloaded your data during this time period, it maybe incomplete or can contain videos of others, so Google recommends the users to initiate another backup and download you're data once again freshly and recommends it's users to delete the previous download.

Google apologized for the inconvenience that has being caused, you can contact Google support for further assistance. You use Google Takeout to "Export a copy of content in your Google Account to back it up or use it with a service outside of Google." Which includes the backup of all the services you use from Google.