Because of a major goof up involving UniSuper, a major financial player and Google’s Cloud division, over 6,20,000 people lost their pension after an account holding $125 billion was deleted by accide

Google made a big mistake recently. The company accidentally erased the private Google Cloud account of a $125 billion Australian pension fund, UniSuper.

A June 2023 press release touted UniSuper's big cloud migration to Google, with Sam Cooper, UniSuper's Head of Architecture, saying, “With Google Cloud VMware Engine, migrating to the cloud is streamlined and extremely easy. It’s all about efficiencies that help us deliver highly competitive fees for our members.”

In a significant mishap, Google 's Cloud division inadvertently deleted an account containing $125 billion in pension funds. The error, which involved UniSuper, a leading financial institution, impacted over 620,

The outage, which affected university, college, and research institution employees, stemmed from what is being described as a 'one-of-a-kind' misconfiguration on Google Cloud.

UniSuper faced an outage due to a Google Cloud deletion, restored on Thursday. CEOs Chun and Kurian highlighted the importance of backups and root cau

Google has accidentally deleted a $125 billion pension fund's account in an extraordinary set of events. The tech company is one of the biggest on the planet, so you'd think that such issues would not happen. However, even Google is sceptical of making mistakes from time to time.

In a rare incident of misconfiguration, Google accidentally deleted the account of a $125 billion pension fund, causing disruption for over half a million UniSuper members, who couldn't access their superannuation accounts for a week.