IPad wiped iPhone Contacts List!?

I just bought an iPad2, was very happy until i tried linking the cloud with my phone, then all of a sudden it wiped my entire phone contacts list. I didnt even touch my phone. And no, because I am so intelligent, i didnt have any of them backed up. Why did this happen and can i fix it? Please help, thank you

Unfortunately, you're not the only one. For some reason, iCloud likes to eat contacts. Ate all of mine. You can try toggling the contacts button in iCloud off and on and see if they reappear...however that's likely a long shot. Unless you ahve them backed up somewhere else like on your computer or the such, they're probably gone. I was lucky, I hadn't tied my Touch to the cloud so i could replace them from there...still it took me tediously e-mailing them one at a time to myself.
iCloud and contacts seem to be a volitile mixture...and the cloud in general seems to have a bad habit of eating data.

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