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I didn't use two factor before, but am now. The password I was using was unique, though, and also fairly complex, so I find it unlikely somebody brute forced i
by blhack 14y ago
I didn't use two factor before, but am now. The password I was using was unique, though, and also fairly complex, so I find it unlikely somebody brute forced it.
I tried the link you're suggesting, as well as looking through the trash etc. What seemed very odd to me was that the messages which started in my inbox were missing from he trash, but things that were "skip the inbox" weren't.
Meaning anything I had "trashed" before yesterday was intact.
Again this seems to suggest that the account wasn't compromised, but that I fell victim to some sort of bug. It would have to be a very strange/determined hacker to go through and move my inbox to trash, then go to trash and only remove messages that started in the inbox.
- raldi 14y agoRegarding the messages that used to be in your inbox -- are they gone gone, like you can't even search for them, even with the in:anywhere flag that makes GMail check Spam and Trash?
- blhack 14y agoOH! in:anywhere seems to be finding them!!! Raldi! Thank you! I searched what I /thought/ was EVERYWHERE yesterday. Thank you thank you thank you!
- raldi 14y agoIs it possible that you accidentally typed *a# into a GMail window? Those are the keyboard shortcuts for "select all" and "move to trash". Fear of doing that sort of thing has led me to disable GMail keyboard shortcuts altogether on my account. (To do that, press ? in a GMail window and click the link on the second line of the overlay window.)
- Matt_Cutts 14y agoVery strange; I've never heard of a Gmail issue like this.
- blhack 14y agoMatt, they seem to have re-appeared in the trash! Yesterday was some very odd behavior, so I must have missed them in the morning. Basically: 1) I logged into gmail, and saw only one email that I had gotten that morning, everything else was gone. I looked in trash, and the things in it were from over a week ago [I've been out of town at Burning Man for the last week], so things hadn't just been moved to trash. 2) Did the "recover deleted messages" request via google, and a few hours got a response that some things should be restored to "All Mail", but still didn't see much. 3) Now they're back! This is great! :)
- Matt_Cutts 14y agoWoohoo! Glad that you were able to recover them!