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

    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.