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.
“Anyone who would design a system that was this vulnerable should not be in IT!”
UniSuper had backups, stored them at a different site, with a different service, and restored successfully from those backups. So props to their IT team. They had a system and a plan.
But shame on Google’s team for a flaw this bad.