{"id":284870,"date":"2011-02-28T20:51:22","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T20:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/02\/28\/google-nukes-gmail-accounts\/"},"modified":"2011-02-28T20:51:22","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T20:51:22","slug":"google-nukes-gmail-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/02\/28\/google-nukes-gmail-accounts\/","title":{"rendered":"Google nukes Gmail accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"84.1709401709\"><span id=\"fb-recommend\"\/><br \/>\n<span>By Laurie Segall, staff reporter<\/span><span>February 28, 2011: 2:29 PM ET<\/span><!--startclickprintexclude--><br clear=\"all\"\/><!--endclickprintexclude--><!-- CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK (CNNMoney) &#8212; Imagine opening up your e-mail and finding years of correspondence gone.<\/p>\n<p>As many as 150,000 Gmail users have been confronting that scary scenario throughout the past day. Around 3:00 pm ET Sunday, Google began &#8220;investigating reports of an issue&#8221; with its popular e-mail service. Over the next few hours, it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/appsstatus#rm=1&#038;di=1&#038;ddo=1&#038;hl=en\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">confirmed<\/a> that a small fraction of Gmail users were experiencing disruptions.<\/p>\n<p><!-- REAP --><!--startclickprintexclude--><!--endclickprintexclude--><!-- \/REAP --><\/p>\n<p>Google says on its status dashboard that less than &#8220;less than 0.08%&#8221; of its user base is affected. But for a service with an estimated 193 million users, that tiny sliver adds up fast. And those affected are spooked.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I logged in and my account also looks like a brand-new Gmail account ! 10 years of emails (17000 of them) are gone,&#8221; one user wrote on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/forum\/p\/gmail\/thread?tid=3064c61f77cd0f46&#038;hl=en\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google&#8217;s help forum<\/a> thread.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This happened to me this a.m. Everything from 6 years gone. Contact list is fine, but all communications have been deleted,&#8221; another wrote. <\/p>\n<p>A Google employee said in the help forum that engineers are working to resurrect users&#8217; full access. Google&#8217;s status dashboard, last updated Sunday night, carries a similar message. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are fixing the problem. We have restored 1\/3 of users and are in the process of fixing the rest,&#8221; a Google spokesman said Monday afternoon. &#8220;Everything should be back to normal in 12 hours. It is our expectation that everything will be fully restored.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>He added that Google has reduced its estimate of the percentage of Gmail users affected to 0.02%. That translates to around 39,000 people. <\/p>\n<p>Those users are stuck hoping that Google really can rescue all their data. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What if <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2011\/02\/09\/technology\/cloud\/index.htm\">the cloud<\/a> fails?&#8221; one wondered in the help forum. &#8220;If, ultimately, Google does not make this right in a timely way and I lose the main record of the last 7 years of my life &#8230; that will forever affect how I view trusting an anonymous server farm somewhere with my critical or even not-so-critical data.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The news comes just a few weeks after a Flickr staff member <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2011\/02\/02\/technology\/flickr_deletes_account\/index.htm\">accidentally deleted<\/a> a user&#8217;s five-year old account, wiping out 4,000 photos. Although the account was restored, the moral of the story was clear: It&#8217;s always good to back up information. <\/p>\n<p>Google offers a <a href=\"http:\/\/mail.google.com\/support\/bin\/answer.py?hl=en&#038;answer=34030\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">set of directions<\/a> to help users back up their e-mail. The five-step process helps users to configure another mail client that will download duplicate copies of Gmail messages. <\/p>\n<p><i>-CNN&#8217;s Meghan Dunn contributed to this report.<\/i> \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2011\/02\/28\/technology\/gmail_outage\/index.htm?section=money_topstories&#038;utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fmoney_topstories+%28Top+Stories%29#TOP\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/0e63013ebug.gif\" alt=\"To top of page\" border=\"0\" width=\"7\" height=\"7\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/CONTENT --><!--startclickprintexclude--><!--startclickprintexclude--><br \/>\n<!--endclickprintexclude--><\/p>\n<p>First Published: February 28, 2011: 2:17 PM ET<\/p>\n<p><!--endclickprintexclude--><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/0e63013ebug.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See more here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/rss.cnn.com\/~r\/rss\/money_topstories\/~3\/lelh3vVY4hM\/index.htm\" title=\"Google nukes Gmail accounts\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google nukes Gmail accounts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Laurie Segall, staff reporter February 28, 2011: 2:29 PM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney) &#8212; Imagine opening up your e-mail and finding years of correspondence gone. As many as 150,000 Gmail users have been confronting that scary scenario throughout the past day. Around 3:00 pm ET Sunday, Google began &#8220;investigating reports of an issue&#8221; with its popular e-mail service<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Google nukes Gmail accounts - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/02\/28\/google-nukes-gmail-accounts\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Google nukes Gmail accounts - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Laurie Segall, staff reporter February 28, 2011: 2:29 PM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Imagine opening up your e-mail and finding years of correspondence gone. 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