# I thought my Gmail had been hacked, but it was just Apple

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 6, 2013, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-my-gmail-had-been-hacked-but-it-was-just-apple/660320 "2013-06-06T19:10:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2013, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-my-gmail-had-been-hacked-but-it-was-just-apple/660320/1 "2013-06-06T19:10:14Z")

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I was just looking at my Gmail, and when I looked in my “Sent Mail” folder I saw a bunch of emails sent “To: me,” which is not unusual, I send myself a lot of emails, but within the message it says it was sent **from** me to “undisclosed recipients”.

My immediate thought was my account had been compromised, but then I looked at the content of the messages. The first of these strange messages read simply:

_Rolls_

The next one:

_Rolls  
Mayo_

The next one:

_Rolls  
Mayo  
Cheese slices_

and then I realized that this was a shopping list I made last week on the “ **Notes** ” app on my iPod Touch! :smack:

I turned this off, but that’s kind of an odd feature, no? I mean, I _suppose_ it could be useful, but it seems weird to me that it would be “on” by default, and not something the app would, say, ask me about the first time I used it.

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**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-my-gmail-had-been-hacked-but-it-was-just-apple/660320/2 "2013-06-07T18:01:30Z")

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I set up Gmail on my iPod Touch, but then deleted it because I don’t need it. But I guess the Touch kept that info handy because yeah - whenever I make a note it silently sends me the contents of the note. Not when I am done with the note, or when I tell it to. Just randomly, during the life of the note.

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**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-my-gmail-had-been-hacked-but-it-was-just-apple/660320/3 "2013-06-07T18:57:01Z")

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Dang it, now I want a cheese sammich.

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**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-my-gmail-had-been-hacked-but-it-was-just-apple/660320/4 "2013-06-07T20:04:33Z")

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> [@ZipperJJ](#):
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> whenever I make a note it silently sends me the contents of the note. Not when I am done with the note, or when I tell it to. Just randomly, during the life of the note.

Yeah isn’t that weird? It was sending an email not when I was finished and pressed “Done,” but _every time_ I added something.