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Des bandes magnétiques sauvent Gmail de la catastrophe. Hier, nous rapportions que 0,29 % des utilisateurs de Gmail, soit plusieurs centaines de milliers d'internautes à travers le monde, ont vu leur boîte en apparence vidée.
Une très mauvaise publicité pour les services de stockage de données à distance, puisque ce type de problèmes montre à quel point les personnes privées et les entreprises qui confient leurs données à des prestataires externes sont démunies le jour où le service devient inopérant. Google nous a cepedant contacté ce mardi pour nous préciser que "le nombre total d'utilisateurs affectés est de 0.02% des utilisateurs Gmail" (et non pas 0,29 % comme Google l'indiquait lui-même hier), et qu'un "grand nombre ont déjà retrouvé accès à leur compte". La firme se veut rassurante. "Nous pouvons déjà affirmer qu'aucune information n'a été perdue", nous indique Google, dont les équipes continuent de travailler au rétablissement total de toutes les boîtes e-mail concernées. Gmail glitch hampers PayPal use. Google Confirms Gmail Glitch. Google (GOOG_) revealed a glitch in what may be its second-most successful service, ranking only behind search.
The company confirmed Friday that some users of Gmail, its popular email service, had their email accounts wiped out, with messages and contact information being permanently deleted. The glitch affected about 60 users, who "lost some or all of their email received prior to Dec. 18," Google spokeswoman Courtney Hohne wrote in a prepared statement. "We have extensive safeguards in place to protect email stored with Gmail and we are confident that this is a small and isolated incident.
" Hohne declined to comment on what caused the problems, saying it is Google's policy not to divulge what takes place behind the scenes with its products. But readers of popular blog TechCrunch, among the first to report the incident, say the deletions may be caused by hacker attacks. "This is not a mistake. Google's University gMail Glitch. Google has recently further delved into the University market by providing its gMail as a University Email system for all staff and students.
Unfortunately for Google, and the universities involved, a bug was discovered that allowed students to see one another's email. A recent bug in Google Apps allowed students at several colleges to read each other's email messages and some were even able to see another student's entire inbox. The issue occurred at a small handful of colleges, admitted Rajen Sheth, senior product manager for Google Apps, but he declined to say how many other institutions were affected. However, according to Donald Tom, director of IT for support services at Brown University, one of the institutions undergoing the transition, he got the impression that a total of 10 schools faced the problem.Source: www.nytimes.com While the bug itself is a problem, many are upset at Google's handling of the problem.
It is important to remember that technology is always imperfect. Gmail glitch resends messages multiple times. Gmail users have been reporting in droves that the Google webmail service is resending messages to their recipients, turning these users into accidental spammers who are unintentionally annoying friends, acquaintances and business contacts.
Starting on Tuesday, users have filled multiple pages of the official Gmail Help Forum with complaints about this problem, which is causing them and their recipients grief. In this thread, a Google employee identified as MrEvan popped in to say the company is looking into the issue. “Thanks for your reports. Just wanted to let you know that the engineers have been working on this. Google Confirms Gmail Glitch « Geeks to Go! – Free help from tech experts. Trouble in the clouds: Gmail glitch loses data, erases some users. Google explains Gmail glitch. Further to the company's official apology for the Gmail outage that left users of the free webmail service without access to their accounts for around 2 hours on Tuesday, Google has updated the community on what went wrong.
Updating a blog post on the topic, Acacio Cruz, the Gmail site reliability manager stated that they were offering the explanation as "lots of folks are asking what happened". Cruz says: "There was a routine maintenance event in one of our European data centers. Gmail Glitch Resends Messages Multiple Times - PCWorld Business Center. Gmail users have been reporting in droves that the Google webmail service is resending messages to their recipients, turning these users into accidental spammers who are unintentionally annoying friends, acquaintances and business contacts.
Starting on Tuesday, users have filled multiple pages of the official Gmail Help Forum with complaints about this problem, which is causing them and their recipients grief. In this thread, a Google employee identified as MrEvan popped in to say the company is looking into the issue. Google says sorry for Gmail glitch. In yet another technical glitch from the Google stable in less than a month, the widely-used Gmail services became inaccessible for millions of users for a brief period on Tuesday.
Noting that the problem has been resolved, the internet giant apologised for the glitch which affected users worldwide, including India. "Many of our users had difficulty accessing Gmail today. The problem is now resolved and users have had access restored. We know how important Gmail is to our users, so we take issues like this very seriously, and we apologise for the inconvenience," Google said in a posting on its website. More than 110 million people across the world are estimated to be using Gmail services. Gmail glitch 'cleans up' email accounts, Google already fixing things. Ad Sponsored by Internetnews.com. Google Hits Glitch, Disables 150,0000 Gmail Accounts. Google, we have a problem.
About 150,000 Gmail account holders woke up to a nightmare this morning, with all their e-mail, attachments and Google Chat logs gone. What happened? Google explains that "less than 0.08%" of all Gmail users were affected by the bug, which completely reset accounts, even down to the detail offering a welcome message to those users when they first logged on today. They, and especially visitors to the Gmail Help Forum, were not amused. But there's good news here. Gmail Glitch Wipes Out Tens of Thousands of Accounts. Google's Gmail software finds fresh competition from Facebook and AOL.Flickr / Mario Antonio Pena Zapateria Tens of thousands of Gmail users found themselves locked out of their accounts Sunday, a glitch Google engineers were still struggling to fix and fully understand Monday.
Initial reports suggested as many as half a million accounts were compromised, the e-mails collected over the years potentially permanently erased. Google acknowledged the issue at 3:09 p.m. Major University Dumps Gmail Over Security Concerns. The University of California, Davis has stopped using Gmail for its 30,000-member staff and faculty body. The university was trying Gmail for faculty and staff with plans to roll out service to the entire campus.
But school officials say the e-mail system isn't secure or private enough to meet their standards. Google Glitch Makes Gmail Slow For "a small subset" of Users. When Gmail burst onto the scene, it garnered universal acclaim for its speed. Over the years, Gmail has continued growing and innovating. However, this growth seems to have come at a cost. If Gmail is agonizingly slow for you, you aren’t the only one. In the words of Gabriel Weinberg, founder of Duck Duck Go, “It can take 20sec to switch labels, and even longer to search for something. But here’s the worst part–it takes just as long to send a simple message!?!”. Fortunately for Weinberg, his blog post got noticed by a Googler. The team is still looking into your account slowness, but it initially appears that the problem is isolated to a small subset of Gmail users…They are still investigating the root cause of the slowness but in the meantime have moved your account to a different set of servers, which should help.
This isn’t the first time that Google has acknowledged this problem. Google Apps and Gmail outage outrage: "Problem resolved"