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Massive Email Disaster at NHS Led to System Crash

An IT contractor sent out a mass email to NHS employees in the UK and crashed the entire system. The email went out to 840,000 email accounts and included a reply all. The email generated an estimated 186 million emails in all, including people replying to unsubscribe. The organization's entire email system was down for most of Monday.

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