Gmail Disaster: Reports Of Mass Email Deletions
Here is yet another reason to keep personal backups of your online files. Download Thunderbird, set up Outlook, do something to save your email! Google may be a great company, Gmail may be a great service and Firefox may be a great tool but be sure that you have backups. On-site, off-site and on different media. It may seem like a hassle but think of how big your headache will be when your data is lost!
“Gmail users are reporting that all of their emails and contacts are being auto deleted. This may be a security flaw around use of Firefox 2.0. Google
’s official policy is that once emails are deleted, they are gone forever. And based on the Google Groups thread, no one has been able to have their Gmail accounts restored to pre-deletion status.”
Thursday, December 28th, 2006