Gmail Hacked? And Backing Up Your Emails
Hey sorry for not being so great about updating this site. It’s the holidays and I am enjoying them. :) Boyrobot’s meet with the parents went great. They loved him! I will update with some pics later on this week.
Anyways, I just read this article about gmail getting hacked(?) and about 60 users’ contacts and emails getting PERMANENTLY deleted. OMG, I’m so glad that didnt’ happen to me! I have close to 1000 emails and 150 contacts in my gmail including a lot of unique information that I don’t store anywhere else. But even though this happened, I still love google and trust them. Although google won’t state how exactly it happened, it was a very isolated incident and considering how many people use gmail, 60 is a very small percentage.
For all of the paranoid people, here’s the gmail help center’s link on how to backup your emails.
On another note, while reading up on gmail I found this article. If you click on this link (make sure you are logged into gmail before you click), you can see who in your list of gmail contacts is “closest” to you by who you email the most often and even the interests you share. My roommate beat out boyrobot for my top spot! hehhe.
Posted: 30 December, 2006 in Knowledge/News, Tips/Tricks/Hacks.