Gossip may have brought about evil eye

A headline in Ynetnews caught my eye.
"Residents of 'cursed' building seek rabbis' advice"
The article goes on to report, "After three of their neighbors die of cancer within one year, panicked residents of apartment building in haredi Ramot neighborhood approach prominent religious leaders, who suggest gossip may have brought about evil eye.
One apartment building in Jerusalem was struck by disaster three times in the last year, when three of its inhabitants – fathers to multiple-child families, died of cancer.
Fearing that their building might be cursed, the distraught residents turned to several leading rabbis for counsel, and were advised to begin holding "Shmirat HaLashon" lessons aimed at preventing people from spreading gossip, and thus protecting them from the evil eye."
Heeding the afvice of Rabbi Shteinman and Rabbi Fuchs, the women residents have begun to attend weekly classes.