- Google Cloud accidentally deleted UniSuper’s account and backups, causing a major data loss and downtime for the company.
- UniSuper was able to recover data from backups with a different provider after the incident.
- The incident highlighted the importance of having safeguards in place for cloud service providers to prevent such catastrophic events from occurring.
It sounds similar to “a unscheduled pen test” and other corporate speak
These situations are almost always self-inflicted. If someone else hacked Google Cloud this badly then you’d likely have heard it from them first. And they probably would have done something significantly more destructive if their goal was harming Google reputation.
I just found the phasing to be kind of funny
“rapid unscheduled disassembly” 🙄