Google Cloud's logo is pictured at the Mobile World Congress (MWC), the telecom industry's biggest annual gathering, in Barcelona on Feb. 27, 2024. Pau Barrena/AFP via Getty Images
Major Australian superannuation provider UniSuper, which serves 647,000 members, has revealed that Google’s Cloud service accidentally deleted primary data and all its backups.
However, the $135 billion ($89.56 billion) fund was able to recover from the mishap, only because it had backed up its data on another service.
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Rex Widerstrom is a New Zealand-based reporter with over 40 years of experience in media, including radio and print. He is currently a presenter for Hutt Radio.
