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    Google Docs Sharing Issue – Phishing E-Mail ??-Image

    Google Docs Sharing Issue – Phishing E-Mail ??

    March 8, 2009 by Kenney Jacob

    Author: Kenney Jacob

    Hi, I am Kenney Jacob, love blogging about Education, Media hypocrisy and Social Issues.

    I recieved this email today I am not sure if this is a genuine one. Can you confirm whether you also recieved any similar emails ?

    Dear Google Docs user,

    We wanted to let you know about a recent issue with your Google Docs account.  We’ve identified and fixed a bug which may have caused you to share some of your documents without your knowledge.  This inadvertent sharing was limited to people with whom you, or a collaborator with sharing rights, had previously shared a document. The issue only occurred if you, or a collaborator with sharing rights, selected multiple documents and presentations from the documents list and changed the sharing permissions. This issue affected documents and presentations, but not spreadsheets.

    To help remedy this issue, we have used an automated process to remove collaborators and viewers from the documents that we identified as being affected. Since the impacted documents are now accessible only to you, you will need to re-share the documents manually. For your reference, we’ve listed below the documents identified as being affected.

    We apologize for the inconvenience that this issue may have caused.  We want to assure you that we are treating this issue with the highest priority.

    The Google Docs Team

    Here are the documents we’ve identified as having been affected:

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    Email preferences: You have received this mandatory email service announcement to update you about important changes to your Google Apps product or account.

    Google, Inc.
    1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
    Mountain View, CA 94043


    5 Responses to “Google Docs Sharing Issue – Phishing E-Mail ??”

    1. I haven’t received this… Its maybe because I don’t use it heavily…I don’t use the collaboration feature at all…Check the email headers…Besides its not asking you the account information…So Its probably not dangerous…

      Comment by Ash — March 8, 2009 @ 1:43 pm

    2. This is not a phishing mail, this is legit. For more info, see http://slashdot.org/~RichardDeVries/journal/225229

      Regards, Richard

      Comment by Richard de Vries — March 8, 2009 @ 2:07 pm

    3. i haven’t received this…

      think it is a phishing mail

      Comment by Varun Anand — March 9, 2009 @ 5:00 pm

    4. i use google docs in and out.. i havent received any mail in any of my google accounts .. i bet this is a phishing mail

      Comment by kaustubh — March 9, 2009 @ 7:52 pm

    5. I do not know about the legitimacy of the specific email that you received. But there were surely some issues with the google docs privacy and many private documents became open to all. They fixed it by yesterday evening I hear. Go to google blog and you can find stuff.

      Comment by Domestic Avalanche — March 10, 2009 @ 11:11 pm

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