Google accidentally deleted $125 billion pension fundaccount

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#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-05-14 08:29 PM | Reply

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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.

"This is an isolated, one-of-a-kind occurrence' that has never before occurred with any of Google Cloud's clients globally," Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian and UniSuper CEO Peter Chun said in a joint statement obtained by The Guardian May 8. "This should not have happened. Google Cloud has identified the events that led to this disruption and taken measures to ensure this does not happen again." ...

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-05-14 08:31 PM | Reply

@#2 ... "This is an isolated, one-of-a-kind occurrence' that has never before occurred with any of Google Cloud's clients globally," Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian and UniSuper CEO Peter Chun said in a joint statement obtained by The Guardian May 8. ....

Google Drive users angry over losing months of stored data (November 2023)
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... Google Drive users are reporting that recent files stored in the cloud have suddenly disappeared, with the cloud service reverting to a storage snapshot as it was around April-May 2023.

Google Drive is a cloud-based storage service that allows people to store and access files from any internet-connected device via their Google account. It is a widely used service by individuals and businesses (as part of Google Workspace).

A trending issue reported on Google's support forums starting last week describes a situation where people say they lost recent data and folder structure changes.

"There is a serious issue here that needs to escalate urgently. We have a support ticket open, this has not been helpful to date," said a Google Drive user on the support thread.

"I pay extra each month to store folders in the cloud so that it is safe, so it is devastating that all my work appears to have been lost," another Google Drive user posted. ...

#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-05-14 08:34 PM | Reply

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#1 | POSTED BY LAMPLIGHTER

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#4 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-05-14 08:36 PM | Reply