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Google Cloud accidentally deletes UniSuper’s online account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’ (www.theguardian.com)
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More than half a million UniSuper fund members went a week with no access to their superannuation accounts after a “one-of-a-kind” Google Cloud “misconfiguration” led to the financial services provider’s private cloud account being deleted, Google and UniSuper have revealed.

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[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 12 points 6 months ago

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.