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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    6 months ago

    The most surprising thing here is they got in contact with a human in Google cloud to resolve the issue.

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      6 months ago

      Imagine this happens to some random personal account… It’d probably be gone for good.

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        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.