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Gmail Bug Sends Thousands of Emails To One Man

Posted by Soulskill on from the sorry-about-your-luck dept.

An anonymous reader writes "TechCrunch is reporting on an interesting Gmail bug. Apparently, if you run a Google search for Gmail while logged in and click one of the top (and correct) results, it brings up a Compose window with an email address already filled in: the Hotmail account of a Fresno, CA man. He says he's been receiving hundreds every hour, most of which are blank, since yesterday. The article says the bug is related to the Gmail outage from earlier this afternoon."

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  1. "Gmail" Bug? by lagartoflojo · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is hardly a "Gmail bug", but rather Google indexing a direct link to Gmail with the To: field filled out with some random email address. The linkbait-y title of this post made me think that some of my private emails were getting sent to the wrong person.

  2. How do you know you're having a shitty day? by circletimessquare · · Score: 5, Funny

    When you are being DDoSed by motherfucking Google .

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