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Gmail Accidentally Resets 150,000 Accounts

Posted by samzenpus on from the did-you-need-that-mail? dept.

tsj5j writes "Many users have reported loss of their Gmail accounts, as they signed in to find their email accounts reset — losing years of email history. This appears to be a result of a bug which treats existing owners as new users. For those affected, Google is currently trying to resolve the problem. For the rest of us, perhaps this is a timely reminder to backup our data and be less trusting of the cloud."

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  1. Funny by bonch · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    How funny. If this was Hotmail, there would be tons of posts bashing Microsoft and contrasting them to the oh-so-great Gmail service. But because it's Gmail, there are tons of "It's your fault for trusting in the cloud" posts.