People who were affected had their entire Google accounts disabled, and upon trying to log in, they got exactly the same messages they would have gotten if Google had decided to delete the account for ToS abuse. Additionally, since the entire account (not just GMail) had to be disabled in order to repair things, stuff like shared google calendars went offline, so users whose accounts were not directly affected were getting misleading error messages, too.
And the bounces didn't stop until the end of the working day on Monday on the east coast.
And the bounces didn't stop until the end of the working day on Monday on the east coast.