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Google Cloud accidentally deletes UniSuper’s online account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’ (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

6 comments fedilink

Super fund boss and Google Cloud global CEO issue joint statement apologising for ‘extremely frustrating and disappointing’ outage

Google Cloud accidentally deletes cutomer’s online account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’ (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

10 comments fedilink

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Google Cloud accidentally deletes UniSuper’s online account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’ (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 month ago by Potatos_are_not_friends to c/technology

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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.

Google Cloud accidentally deletes a financial institution account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’ (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

1 comments fedilink

cross-posted from: https://feddit.it/post/7752642

A week of downtime and all the servers were recovered only because the customer had a proper disaster recovery protocol and held backups somewhere else, otherwise Google deleted the backups too

Google cloud ceo says "it won't happen anymore", it's insane that there's the possibility of "instant delete everything"

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Google Cloud accidentally deletes a financial institution account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’ (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

63 comments fedilink

A week of downtime and all the servers were recovered only because the customer had a proper disaster recovery protocol and held backups somewhere else, otherwise Google deleted the backups too

Google cloud ceo says "it won't happen anymore", it's insane that there's the possibility of "instant delete everything"