Monday, February 28, 2011

Gmail Accidentally Resets 150,000 Accounts

yup, fear the cloud!

 
 

Sent to you by David via Google Reader:

 
 

via Slashdot by samzenpus on 2/28/11

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."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.


 
 

Things you can do from here:

 
 

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