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Google Cloud accidentally deletes UniSuper’s online account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 11 May 2024
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The most surprising thing here is they got in contact with a human in Google cloud to resolve the issue.
Imagine this happens to some random personal account... It'd probably be gone for good.
There were several months with people complaining their data was getting deleted and Google just ignored the whole thing until it blew up on hacker news.
It's easier when you've got $146BN moving through you.