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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."

2 of 401 comments (clear)

  1. Oh shhhh by commodore6502 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yep that's what they stepped in.

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    Information wants to be expensive AND wants to be free. So you have Value vs. Cheap distribution fighting each other.
  2. Re:A year ago Gadhafi and Mubarak were our allies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Truth hurts, doesn't it Obamabots? Hey, how's that whole "closing Gitmo" thing going? Is the PATRIOT Act still in force?

    http://biggovernment.com/sahiller/2010/02/28/obama-signs-patriot-act-extension-msm-and-the-left-silent/

    How about curbing those tax cuts for the rich? Because we all know that only money-hoarding Wall Street fat cats invest in the stock market or sell their houses. Only soulless millionaires ever have any capital gains to report.