Sunday, January 26, 2014

"Google Glitch Sent Thousands of Emails to Some Guy’s Hotmail Account"

Daniel Acker / Bloomberg News / Getty Images
"On Friday, a Gmail outage led to widespread panic and confusion across the globe. That same day, an apparently unrelated glitch also caused thousands of emails to end up in the inbox of some guy named David S. Peck. (A Hotmail user, it should be noted.)

"Here’s what happened: users who searched 'Gmail' were led to a results page with a link that said 'Email.' Clicking that link created a new email with Peck’s address – dsp559@hotmail.com —  already filled in. A tipster pointed this out to TechCrunch, who then tracked down the owner of the email address: David S. Peck of Fresno, Calif. They gave him a call to see just how badly this bizarre glitch was affecting him.

“'I’ve been getting thousands of no-subject, blank emails,' Peck told TechCrunch. '500 of them come every hour, I can’t stop them.'"


I found the headline hilarious. 

6 comments:

andromodo77 said...

I wonder what type of glitch could cause such an event? Bet the political parties are investigating the glitch to serve their many diabolical plans.

BL Basketcase said...

That response took a lot of thought Andy. Haha

OrbsCorbs said...

Diabolical and nefarious.

SER said...

Reminds me of the time about 20 years ago the address labeler for Playboy Magazine stuck and labeled a little over 10,000 magazines for one guy. No one caught it and they went to the post office and the post office is required to deliver them.

He had them stacked up in his front yard.

kkdither said...

Maybe he should start reading through it all... there might be something that someone wants to keep secret? Hmmm. Nefarious, indeed!

Anonymous said...

Ser, I missed that story because I was too busy reading all the magazines that year.... No wonder I felt like I had read those before.
I thought they were all current editions because the pages were clean.