Sunday, January 26, 2014

Google outage causes thousands of emails to be sent to man’s Hotmail account

<p>Jan. 24 (UPI) -- During Friday's Google outage, a glitch apparently caused one man's Hotmail address to be bombarded with thousands of emails.</p><p>TechCrunch reported on the bug, saying users who turned to Google Search with the keyword "Gmail" may have sent an email to one David S. Peck -- at Hotmail.com</p><p>After clicking the "Gmail Google" link following, some users were brought to a Gmail compose window displaying the email address dsp559 at Hotmail automatically filled in.</p><p>"I've been getting thousands of no-subject, blank emails," Peck told TechCrunch on Friday. "500 of them come every hour, I can't stop them."</p><p><a href="http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/Blog/2014/01/24/Google-outage-causes-thousands-of-emails-to-be-sent-to-mans-Hotmail-account/6971390596000/">Keep reading...</a></p>

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