[_trampeltier]

I think there was a case, where several people loged in the same Gmail account and shared data not by sending mails, just by write and read drafts.

[bottom999mottob]

You might be thinking of the General David Patraeus case, a national security leak that was slightly worse than Snowden's, but with little repurcussions :)

[liquidgecka]

yep.. And it would split uploads across dozens of accounts with parity so that if any account was disabled it could re-create the data from what was in the other accounts. (think bittorrent using imap uploaded content in gmail)