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Google accidentally disabled Gmail accounts
What would you do if you woke up one morning to check your email, and for some reason you can't login? It seems as though Google has recently done the unthinkable, deleted some Gmail accounts. Google came across spammers who setup accounts at Gmail, and began to actively monitor and investigate them. Through the process, a number of legit Google accounts were accidentally disabled.
Google is working on restoring the accounts, but it looks like several which have been re-enabled do not link properly to email attachments. Some people have even been locked out of important information they had stored in their Gmail accounts, and out of their Google Accounts that control blogs, Docs and even AdSense for seven days so far.
This new development is surely going to make people think twice about the extreme side effects that can come with storing information online. We just rarely assume it could happen with Google.
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Subscribe to commentsErzengelApr 9th 2007 6:26PM
Funny advice, coming from a site that has been telling us all the wonders of Google all this time :)
MorganApr 9th 2007 6:40PM
I don't know who this is news to, anyone the least bit responsible with their information keeps on-site and off-site backups. That does not include me, but I can't very well get upset when I have disastrous data loss on a free, remotely hosted service.
This will happen even more often, since as everyone knows Microsoft Office is so 20th century and the desktop is dead, long live the webtop, all that. No phone number, no contact form? Sure, take sole possession of my important documents.
RumbleApr 9th 2007 11:16PM
My dad lost his Calendar data. He's pretty bummed, but it's nothing he can't fix.
TimApr 11th 2007 11:43AM
Finally! I knew Gmail wasn't that great!!!
Robert FreiburghouseApr 16th 2007 11:54AM
I am the tech support person for a small private school. Within the past week 7 of our approximately 50 gmail accounts have been deleted. Google support claimed to have restored 6 of them, but none were restored and another was deleted just yesterday. A great service has gone terribly wrong.