A few percentage of Gmail users experienced a weird Gmail bug yesterday wherein their unread e-mails were marked as read when the checked their accounts. Google later blamed the alarming bug, which initially made people think their accounts were compromised, on a "code change" issue.
As soon as word spread regarding this "issue", it took no time for the users to hit the panic button - thanks to Twitter and the likes. Many users who were intimated about the issue by their friends immediately logged in to Gmail, only to find almost all of their unread e-mails read. Google has, since then, confirmed that no one has read individual inboxes and that such issues will not be repeated.
Gmail, of late, has been facing reliability and stability issues with the service going kaput quite a few times earlier this year as well. This, however, was not really an outage -- but just an annoying bug that could have affected the credibility of the service. Were you affected by this issue?
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