IPhone 4s Contacts Disappeared

Suddenly contacts disappeared, I had to Hard-reset my iPhone then restore contacts from icloud.

I had the same thing happen to me last night, all of my contacts randomly disappeared. Here's the breakdown of how it all started:
I happened to toggle thru my open apps. It was then that I noticed the image on the email app showing an unrecognized name (Mr. J Robertson) and it was showing as a contact in my email app; not as an email or what I normally see under my email. I thought this was odd, so I opened my email app; when I did this image was no longer visible. I tried searching for the name I saw, and found nothing pulled up. I then tried to delete some of my emails, and got a message stating that it is unable to delete the messages selected at this time. When I refreshed my emails, I received multiple new email sound alerts coming thru on duplicates of three and four times on emails I had already received. It wouldn't stop! I have 5 different email accounts on my email app, the only one acting wonky was my hotmail, so I deleted it, and re-added it back.
Upon doing so, no mail shows up under my hotmail email, and I noticed shortly after that my contacts had disappeared (all but my favorite contacts). Within minutes my favorites also disappeared, and within a few minutes after that I saw the names of my contacts replaced with the phone numbers on my txt message app. All of this happened within a 10 minute time frame.
I still have not been able to retrieve emails from my hotmail account, and my contacts are still gone. I am afraid to connect my phone to my computer to restore my contacts from my last back up on itunes or my verizon backup assistant; because it makes me wonder if I have a virus on my phone.

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Hi ive been an iphone user since 3GS. I have NEVER i mean NEVER had any technical issues with iPhone. But today i was completely taken aback.
at about 9.17Pm (india) i checked my phone and was shocked to see all the CONTACTS disappeared!! Not only did the contacts diasppear, the photos attached to all the contacts were also GONE! i tried:
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3. My iCloud settings had CONTACTS on OFF (dunno how that happened, ususally its ON). Followed some earlier troubleshoot to SWITCH OFF and ON the contacts sync to iCloud.
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i have a problem while syncing my iphone with itunes. Itunes is the last release and iphone have the 6.1.2. Last week i connect the iphone to the Mac and, with suprise, i found that some of my new contacs added to my iphone is disappeared! I'm sure i added the only and for the first time to the Iphone and i didn't remove them neither intentionally nor accidentally. Now i disabled autosync to avoid the problem, but someone can help me to solve this? There is some way to recover lost contacs?
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Kata-*******-stroff! Grateful for answers?

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