Tens of thousands of Gmail users found themselves locked out of their accounts Sunday, a glitch Google engineers were still struggling to fix and fully understand Monday.
Initial reports suggested as many as half a million accounts were compromised, the e-mails collected over the years potentially permanently erased. Google acknowledged the issue at 3:09 p.m. EST Sunday; by Monday afternoon the company lowered the number of affected users to just 0.02% of accounts -- a small number that nonetheless translates into a large number accounts.
Google has not said exactly how many users its e-mail service has, only that Gmail has "hundreds of millions" of users around the world. That would mean that tens of thousands -- 20,000 out of every 100 million -- of users were affected.
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