Google Accidentally Erases Data of $135 Billion Pension Fund

Google’s cloud platform deleted the entire customer account of UniSuper, including all backups.

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.