Help i lost my contacts

My numbers just disappeared last night??? Where can i get my contacts back???? I don't understand???

Your contacts are synced with a supported application on your computer if you don't have a Push account set up (MS Exchange, for example). They are synced each time you sync the phone to the computer. In addition the contacts are backed up on the computer each time you sync. So they should not have disappeared, but if they did restoring the backup from your computer will bring back all of the contacts up to the last sync.
If you DO have push the contacts reside on your Exchange server. If they disappeared it is most likely a problem with the Exchange server, and they will come back with the Exchange server comes back up.

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