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A dumb employee from Wyoming based Rocky Mountain bank sent names, addresses, SSNs and loan information of more than 1,300 customers to a Gmail address mistakenly. The bank tried to contact the GMail account owner, but they didn’t get any response. The bank filed a case against Google in U.S District court in California. The judge ordered Google to deactivate that particular email account and Google complied. Google said they can’t restore the account until the court orders to do so.

The user, though it was not his fault, has lost his email account along with his emails. I’m not sure why he didn’t respond. If he didn’t with bad intention, then, good he lost the account. If he didn’t respond because he thought it was one of the many spams that emails users get and didn’t care to open it, then I pity him. I generally get lots of spam with different bank names and I don’t open them normally. This case shows that unless you have backed up your emails (which most people don’t since they trust the service providers), it’s not sure you’ll have it tomorrow. This case clearly shows that you might loose your emails and your email account due to some dumb activity by someone somewhere.

Update: The GMail user never viewed that particular email and Google deleted that email. The judge ordered Google to reactivate the GMail account. The funny thing was, the bank took no action against that dumb worker who created all this mess.

Source: MediaPost, CNet

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