Google Accidentally Deleted $125 Billion Pension Fund's Account

published on 2024/05/15
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Google made a big mistake recently. The company accidentally erased the private Google Cloud account of a $125 billion Australian pension fund, UniSuper.

The result: more than half a million UniSuper fund members had no access to their accounts for about a week, The Guardian reported last week. UniSuper had a backup account with another cloud provider, and service was restored May 2.

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Always backup your data with a different provider for exactly this reason.

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