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Google Cloud accidentally deletes UniSuper’s online account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’ (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 6 months ago by Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

No, they had backups. They deleted those, too.

[–] Kid_Thunder@kbin.social 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Google Cloud definitely backs up data. Specifically I said

after an account is deleted.

The surprise here being that those backups are gone (or unrecoverable) immediately after the account is deleted.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 months ago

I've found that Google deletes backups after a few months

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

A replica is not a backup.