Photoshop CC messes up text colors, layer effects and whole layers?!

Hello
I was just working on several documents when something strange happend - out of nothing the appearance of fonts,layers, backgrounds etc changed. white color turned black. some layers had total different colors ( bitmap layers, no shape layers) - everything looked really messed up. I thought its some display bug in photoshop cc so I saved my document and restartet everything - fun thing -> it did save with these alterations.
Whatever happend, I have the problem in 2 documents, i can't reproduce it - one was a pretty big psd file - the other one was a fairly new one. thank to timemachine i was able to recover my file but as of now I'm kind of scared what happend - did anyone encounter this bug? Can i somehow provide more info on that topic?
Retina Macbook Pro 15, OSX 10.8.4 and newest photoshop CC via teamcloud.
Thanks

You may have hit CMD I and inverted the colors. Move your cursor over the image and see review the values in the info palette.
If they are reading correctly to what you see on the screen your image is altered and posisbly doing an invert again would restore you.
If the colors are reading opposite, then you have some sort of display issue.

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