Has Your Gmail Email Disappeared? You’re Not Alone 1/2/2007 - 3,136 views, 8 Comments
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Over the holidays, many people logged in to their Gmail accounts only to find that their email had vanished. Gone. Nowhere to be found. Their Gmail email had completely disappeared. Google has confirmed that somehow - although as of yet they’re not saying how - a number of people had their email completely deleted - gone for good - from their Gmail accounts. And it wasn’t just their email. Their contacts had all been magically deleted as well. With no hope of recovering them. According to Google, “We have extensive safeguards in place to protect email stored with Gmail and we are confident that this is a small and isolated incident.” So how small and isolated an incident was this? Were you affected? And if you weren’t, don’t get too comfortable. Because today it’s been reported that if you do still have all of your contacts in your Gmail contact list, they can be grabbed by any site intentionally running a particular script - and the only thing you have to do “wrong” for this to happen is to visit one of those sites while you are logged in to Gmail.
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Ok - I give up - what are the sites that are causing Gmail to vanish? Is there a “hot fix” or MSN update/fix available?
Comment by wezyljm — 1/2/2007 @ 1:42 pm
Nothing I didn’t erase myself is gone in my gmail account. I am concerned about the pickup sites even though I don’t leave gmail open. Can you find out anything about these sites?
Comment by Burt Wood — 1/2/2007 @ 2:22 pm
This is the reason why I NEVER bother with these types of mail accounts. Why not release the names of these sites and put them to shame… or at least warn the poor people who rely on sloppy programming like this.
Comment by Kimo — 1/2/2007 @ 6:03 pm
Actually the contact list stealing script has been corrected by Google. Here is the story, note the Update at the top ( http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/01/your_gmail_contact_list_is_han.html?CMP=OTC-UD6648202101&ATT=Your+GMail+Contact+List+is+Hanging+Out+There ). I don’t know anything about the email disappearing, except that I have not had this problem, but I thought people should know Google has quickly corrected the script vulnerability.
Comment by Some guy — 1/3/2007 @ 5:46 pm
i have had my Gmail account for about a year i never had a problem with it i know alot of people who have it and they still do.
Comment by bill — 8/13/2007 @ 11:02 am
I NEVER bother with these types of mail accounts. Why not release the names of these sites and put them to shame
Comment by tell a friend script — 1/17/2008 @ 11:19 pm
Just happened to me, before my eyes. Changed my password and still was happening, so I think it is definitely a google server issue
Comment by Ron — 1/27/2008 @ 10:59 pm
while typing a message my cursor will disappear and reappear in text already typed. I type looking at keyboard so I do not catch it in time.
Comment by John gahagan — 5/30/2008 @ 3:35 pm