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Thousands of ICQ Numbers Deleted

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the subtle-hints dept.

BondGamer writes "Many ICQ users woke up and found their ICQ numbers were no longer working. There is a topic on the ICQ support with more than 1,500 replies. There are pages upon pages of other topics asking what happened. As of yet, there has been no official response from AOL about what has happened."

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  1. Backups? by Soruk · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Probably a server drive crash, and this is where we discover AOL have been reliably backing up their ICQ server to /dev/null all these years.

    (and it seems mine is gone too, but I haven't used it in 4 years.)

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    -- Soruk