Turk Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 By Casey Johnston - Jan 25 2014, 9:48am AUSESTGmail shifted the "spam" link away from the layout TechCrunch screenshotted to discourage clicking. It's highlighted here in purple in its new form.A Gmail bug has resulted in thousands of unsolicited e-mails hitting up the Hotmail account of one David S. Peck of Fresno, California, according to a report from TechCrunch. TechCrunch suggests the glitch is possibly related to the outage that occurred earlier Friday.The bug operated like this: a Google search for the word “Gmail” turns up a couple of links under the Gmail header, including one with the text “Email.” Clicking that link would pop up a Compose window with dsp559 at hotmail dot com pre-filled in the To: field; apparently, more than a few Gmail users YOLO’d and hit send.Peck has been receiving the unsolicited e-mails since Thursday. He deleted the day’s bounty and woke up Friday with 1,900 more e-mails, he told TechCrunch. Peck contacted Hotmail for support, and as of Friday afternoon, the “Email” link on the Google results page leads to a 404.Earlier in the day, both Gmail and Google+ went down for about two hours. Given Google+’s recent integration with YouTube, that meant YouTube users were unable to make comments on the site, as well.http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/01/bad-gmail-link-results-in-thousands-of-spam-e-mails-to-a-hotmail-user Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calguyhunk Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 That's what you get for using hotmail LOL! :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nIGHT Posted January 27, 2014 Share Posted January 27, 2014 Pre-filled? Hmm..This sounds suspicious! :think: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DLord Posted January 27, 2014 Share Posted January 27, 2014 Pre-filled? Hmm..This sounds suspicious! :think:I second that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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