Gmail Getting Buggy, Google Helpless?

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An unknown bug is deleting Gmail inboxes and contacts permanently. Nearly 60 users have lost their mails and contacts to the strange bug. Yet, Google is not ready to express the cause of Gmail Glitch.

In a statement, company's spokesperson Courtney Hohne said, “We have extensive safeguards in place to protect email stored with Gmail and we are confident that this is a small and isolated incident."

It is suspected that a security flaw in Firefox 2.0 has invited malicious users to delete emails in a user's account. One of the affected users said that he had a message in his mail box. The message reads, “This is not a mistake. All your emails and contacts have been deleted on purpose. This was a malicious attack and not an error.”

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1018One Response2006-12-30+14%3A21%3A32Navneet+Kaushal to “Gmail Getting Buggy, Google Helpless?”

The Problem With Gmail Gets Worse » Unofficial SEO Blog - Search Engine Information, much before it’s official. Says:
January 3rd, 2007 at 03:06
[...] Google has entered the New Year with a new problem with its Gmail. We reported last week that an unidentified bug is deleting Gmail inboxes and contacts permanently. Now, the search engine is facing yet another serious problem with its Gmail service. A TechCrunch story explains Gmail contact lists can be downloaded by adding a code to their server and exploiting Google's JSON API, a new service that provides unified for web search, image search, blog search and video search. In other words, the Gmail is now open for spammers, who can easily access contact lists of users and cause serious security threats. [...]