Technology giant Google just made a wrong move that affected hundreds of thousands of people.
A serious incident just happened at Google when the company accidentally wiped out the cloud account of UniSuper, Australia's $125 billion pension fund. As a result, more than half a million members of the UniSuper fund were unable to access their accounts for a week, seriously affecting the fund's operations and members' peace of mind.
According to information from The Guardian, the incident occurred in early May when Google performed operations on its cloud system. Due to a technical error, UniSuper's account was permanently deleted, leaving the pension fund unable to access important data of more than half a million members.
Google accidentally deleted the UniSuper pension fund's cloud account.
Google restored UniSuper's account from backup and pledged not to let a similar incident happen. Google said the incident has never happened before on a cloud service, but the potential for glitches and disruptions has businesses and government organizations concerned about moving their data to other cloud services. cloud service provider.
Google Cloud said that, as of this year, the company had about 60% of the world's top 1,000 companies and 90% of innovative artificial intelligence (AI) startups as customers. And nearly half a million companies globally use Google Cloud as a “platform as a service” (PaaS) or customer-facing tool, including Volkswagen and Royal Bank of Canada.
The US government and intelligence community are also gradually moving towards using cloud services to store data. The US National Security Agency (NSA) has signed a $10 billion deal with Amazon to transfer its intelligence surveillance data to the company's cloud. The Pentagon also has $9 billion in contracts with Microsoft, Google, Oracle and Amazon for cloud computing services.
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UniSuper's incident is a wake-up call for organizations and individuals using cloud services. Data protection needs to be given due attention to avoid possible unfortunate consequences.
