Google acknowledged the issue at 4:09am local Singapore time and started investigations into one of the most serious outages to hit the Web mail provider so far. More than 7 hours later, the service was said to have been restored for some users, while others can expect a resolution “in the near future”.
But it is not clear yet if Google would be able to restore all lost messages. On the recovery efforts, a Google statement added: “Please note this time frame is an estimate and may change.” Full story