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Google Cloud error erases $135B pension fund
Axios ^
| May 31, 2024
| Hope King
Posted on 05/31/2024 12:27:33 PM PDT by Red Badger
Earlier this month, Google's cloud platform deleted the entire customer account, including some backups, of UniSuper.
Why it matters: Fortunately for the $135 billion Australian pension fund's 647,000 members, some of UniSuper's backups on Google Cloud's servers and elsewhere were salvageable, and the fund was able to recover its data, teaching us all a lesson about having multiple redundancies.
What they're saying: This was not a "systemic issue," Google says.
"An inadvertent misconfiguration" during a setup left a data field blank, which then triggered the system to automatically delete the account. The big picture: Google is having a rough 2024. In addition to this mishap, the company is reeling from its AI Overview debut and its disastrous AI-generated image tool launch.
Editor's note: This story has been corrected to reflect that some of UniSuper's backups on Google Cloud's servers were not erased.
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Military/Veterans; Society
KEYWORDS: ai; google; googlecloud
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To: Red Badger
"An inadvertent misconfiguration" during a setup left a data field blank, which then triggered the system to automatically delete the account..." Funny, that's the same excuse the Clinton White House used when all of Al Gore's subpoenaed emails suddenly vanished back in early 2000, along with all the backups.
The linked article has links to all the back stories by Paul Sperry.
-PJ
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posted on
05/31/2024 12:43:38 PM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
To: SaveFerris
“I’ve got my pistol pawn cocked...”
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posted on
05/31/2024 12:44:10 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Red Badger
Man, people complain about the littlest things. It was only one blank field...
To: Billthedrill
Google says it’s not ‘systemic’.
The system did it.....................
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posted on
05/31/2024 12:53:17 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: Red Badger
Yeah, The Cloud is safe!..............
xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
good thing they didn’t have it in cryto
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posted on
05/31/2024 12:53:47 PM PDT
by
thinden
(buckle up ....)
To: mikelets456
Yes, via OOPS. Sorry, your money is gone. Enforced by the injustice system where recourse and prosecution is only selective.
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posted on
05/31/2024 12:54:43 PM PDT
by
Sequoyah101
(The Government that got us in this mess is not the Government that can get us out of it.)
To: SaveFerris
Oh yeah, it’s coming and it’s coming soon. Right after the theft of the 24 election.
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posted on
05/31/2024 12:55:45 PM PDT
by
BigFreakinToad
(Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
To: srmanuel
Wow, thats pretty big oops.
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posted on
05/31/2024 12:57:37 PM PDT
by
BigFreakinToad
(Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
To: dfwgator
shouldn’t give them ideas
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posted on
05/31/2024 12:59:07 PM PDT
by
BigFreakinToad
(Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
To: Red Badger
I surmise that Google was funded, organized and operated as just another CIA entity.
To: Red Badger
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posted on
05/31/2024 1:01:10 PM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack )
To: drypowder
I don’t think it started out that way, but that’s the way it ended up.............
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posted on
05/31/2024 1:02:40 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: ShadowAce
Yep, with a bigger Power Supply...............
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posted on
05/31/2024 1:03:10 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: BigFreakinToad
It will just get harder and harder to transact before then
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posted on
05/31/2024 1:09:48 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
To: ShadowAce
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posted on
05/31/2024 1:10:10 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
To: Red Badger
This is why you should never opt out of getting physical statements mailed to you for financial accounts.
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posted on
05/31/2024 1:28:57 PM PDT
by
SecondAmendment
(The history of the present Federal Government is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations ....)
To: Red Badger
Anyone who would design a system that was this vulnerable should not be in IT!
You have to assume that disasters will happen, and develop systems accordingly.
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posted on
05/31/2024 1:35:29 PM PDT
by
I want the USA back
(Voltaire: To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.)
To: Red Badger; Swordmaker; ShadowAce; dfwgator
Rules for backups.- Make backups often.
- Then make copies of the backups on some other local storage for fast recovery.
- Then make copies of the backups in a different physical location for disaster recovery.
- And then keep them all updated whenever the source data changes.
So, when was the last time you did even the first level of backup? Eh?
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posted on
05/31/2024 1:39:42 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(Strange Women Lying In Ponds Distributing Swords! Arthur Pendragon in 2024)
To: dayglored
So, when was the last time you did even the first level of backup? Eh?
***************************************************
Last week /grin/
One in the computer second drive.
One on an external drive that get stashed elsewhere.
Real Easy on a unix box.
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posted on
05/31/2024 1:54:11 PM PDT
by
dagunk
To: All
i dropped a box of 80 column fortran iv program cards once.
fortunately, i had marked the cards with a diagonal stripe, so it was not difficult to put the box of cards back together correctly again.
but it was a close one.
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posted on
05/31/2024 1:55:49 PM PDT
by
SteveH
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