If you missed this, It's still not clear just how this happened, although it is blamed on an "inadvertent misconfiguration." You gotta love that catch-all word. #cybersecurity #infosec
"The deletion of a multi-billion dollar client's account and every backup therein, bypassing all safeguards, knocking out financial services to hundreds of thousands of pensioners for two weeks is, in the words of Brass Eye, the one thing we didn't want to happen."
Always keep backups: an 'unprecedented' #Google Cloud debacle saw a $135 billion pension fund's entire account deleted and services knocked out for nearly two weeks https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/always-keep-backups-an-unprecedented-google-cloud-debacle-saw-a-dollar135-billion-pension-funds-entire-account-deleted-and-services-knocked-out-for-nearly-two-weeks/ PC Gamer (npub12up…gw0t)
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