Update: Our ISP Slingshot is caching private Gmail, Trademe, Facebook and Digg pages!!! I – and others on Slingshot – can see other people’s account info! We have had caching issues with them before, but never on private pages and this is RIDICULOUS! We rang Slingshot this afternoon and they admitted the problem!!!
Click to enlarge screenshots (blurred partially to protect privacy of other people’s accounts):
Three different Gmail accounts:
Three different Facebook accounts:
Trademe account:
Posted earlier:
This afternoon I tried logging into Gmail as I usually do to check my email and discovered that I was logged into someone else’s account! I got a real shock and tried a few more times, the same thing happened again.
I then tried using a different browser (IE7 instead of Firefox 2) and this time when I logged in I saw a different person’s Gmail account! In both cases I get a pop-up window appearing saying the following:
You have been signed out of this account.
This may have happened automatically because another user signed in from the same browser. To continue using this account, you will need to sign in again. This is done to protect your account and to ensure the privacy of your information.
What was interesting is that the email accounts all look to be those of other New Zealanders as there are TradeMe emails in both (New Zealand’s version of Ebay).
As of now I still can’t access my Gmail account and am seriously concerned about what is going on.
