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Wipes Out 150,000 Accounts
It appears that there was a major, unanounced, problem with G-Mail. Some Literoticans may be affected. Complaints are okay, but the use of the term 'crude motherfuckers' in the complaints is not okay.
Published February 28, 2011| FoxNews.com
Tens of thousands of Gmail users found themselves locked out of their accounts Sunday, a glitch Google engineers were still struggling to fix and fully understand Monday morning.
Initial reports suggested as many as half a million accounts were compromised, the years' worth of e-mails potentially permanently erased. Google acknowledged the issue at 3:09 p.m. EST Sunday, eventually determining that the problem affected just 0.08% of users -- a number widely assumed to translate to about 150,000 accounts.
Google has not said exactly how many users its e-mail service has, only that Gmail has "hundreds of millions" of users around the world. That would mean that tens of thousands -- 80,000 out of every 100 million -- users were affected.
And as of 12 p.m. EST Monday, the company was still working to fully resolve the issue.
"Google Mail service has already been restored for some users, and we expect a resolution for all users in the near future," the company wrote on its Apps Status Dashboard. "Google engineers are working to restore full access. Affected users will be temporarily unable to sign in while we repair their accounts."
The company did not offer additional details, nor did it respond to e-mail requests for more information. Meanwhile, Google engineers continue to study the service outage, according to a series of notes on the company's status page.
"Our team is continuing to investigate this issue. We will provide an update by February 28, 2011 11:00:00 AM UTC-5 with more information about this problem. Thank you for your patience," reads the 12:00 p.m. update -- exactly mirroring the updates the company has been issuing all morning.
Meanwhile, locked-out and livid users have taken to the company's user forums in their quest for help.
"Yesterday I had exactly the same issues reported here: deletion of ALL mails, archives, labels, filters, pop/imap settings for alternative e-mail addresses, blackberry. It looks like a brand new Gmail account with 7.5GB storage space as opposed to the 25GB I paid for," one user wrote.
It appears that there was a major, unanounced, problem with G-Mail. Some Literoticans may be affected. Complaints are okay, but the use of the term 'crude motherfuckers' in the complaints is not okay.
Published February 28, 2011| FoxNews.com
Tens of thousands of Gmail users found themselves locked out of their accounts Sunday, a glitch Google engineers were still struggling to fix and fully understand Monday morning.
Initial reports suggested as many as half a million accounts were compromised, the years' worth of e-mails potentially permanently erased. Google acknowledged the issue at 3:09 p.m. EST Sunday, eventually determining that the problem affected just 0.08% of users -- a number widely assumed to translate to about 150,000 accounts.
Google has not said exactly how many users its e-mail service has, only that Gmail has "hundreds of millions" of users around the world. That would mean that tens of thousands -- 80,000 out of every 100 million -- users were affected.
And as of 12 p.m. EST Monday, the company was still working to fully resolve the issue.
"Google Mail service has already been restored for some users, and we expect a resolution for all users in the near future," the company wrote on its Apps Status Dashboard. "Google engineers are working to restore full access. Affected users will be temporarily unable to sign in while we repair their accounts."
The company did not offer additional details, nor did it respond to e-mail requests for more information. Meanwhile, Google engineers continue to study the service outage, according to a series of notes on the company's status page.
"Our team is continuing to investigate this issue. We will provide an update by February 28, 2011 11:00:00 AM UTC-5 with more information about this problem. Thank you for your patience," reads the 12:00 p.m. update -- exactly mirroring the updates the company has been issuing all morning.
Meanwhile, locked-out and livid users have taken to the company's user forums in their quest for help.
"Yesterday I had exactly the same issues reported here: deletion of ALL mails, archives, labels, filters, pop/imap settings for alternative e-mail addresses, blackberry. It looks like a brand new Gmail account with 7.5GB storage space as opposed to the 25GB I paid for," one user wrote.
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