All my contacts deleted, why is that???

Out of nowhere all my contacts form my contacts list got deleted, I have no idea what happen, I had many contacts and then i open the app and they are all gone, i tried reseting my Ipad but it was of no help. can someone please help me??

Try restoring from backup. See:
iTunes: Backing up, updating, and resto
iOS: How to back uping iOS software

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