Google Glitch Sent Thousands of Emails to Some Guy’s Hotmail Account
http://newsfeed.time.com/2014/01/26/google-glitch-sent-thousands-of-emails-to-some-guys-hotmail-account/
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.)
Heres 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 Pecks 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.
Ive been getting thousands of no-subject, blank emails, Peck told TechCrunch. 500 of them come every hour, I cant stop them.
The deluge got so extreme that Peck began missing important messages because he couldnt delete the unwanted emails fast enough. Most were blank, but some contained messages like who is this? or why are you sending me these emails?