Big and bad news for Gmail users. The Google email service suffered a serious issue over the weekend with thousands of users losing years worth of messages, attachments and chat logs after a period of significant downtime.
Gmail reports via the Google App Dashboard that “less than 0.08%” of users have been affected but that percentage actually works out to be quite a significant number of people, around 150,000 Gmail users.
Google has not offered any definitive guidance for Gmail users but says: “Google Mail service has already been restored for some users and we expect a resolution for all users in the near future. Please note this time frame is an estimate and may change.”
That’s not quite as reassuring as we’d like. Let us know in the comments if you are one of the Gmail users who got burned this time and if you’ve got a Gmail back up solution, recommend it below!
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