{"id":189117,"date":"2024-05-11T01:24:35","date_gmt":"2024-05-11T06:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/google-cloud-accidentally-deletes-unisupers-online-account-due-to-unprecedented-misconfiguration"},"modified":"2024-05-11T01:24:35","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T06:24:35","slug":"google-cloud-accidentally-deletes-unisupers-online-account-due-to-unprecedented-misconfiguration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/google-cloud-accidentally-deletes-unisupers-online-account-due-to-unprecedented-misconfiguration","title":{"rendered":"Google Cloud accidentally deletes UniSuper\u2019s online account due to \u2018unprecedented misconfiguration\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-cloud-accidentally-deletes-unisupers-online-account-due-to-unprecedented-misconfiguration2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The UniSuper CEO, Peter Chun, wrote to the fund\u2019s 620,000 members on Wednesday night, explaining the outage was not the result of a cyber-attack, and no personal data had been exposed as a result of the outage. Chun pinpointed Google\u2019s cloud service as the issue.<\/p>\n<p>In an extraordinary joint statement from Chun and the global CEO for Google Cloud, Thomas Kurian, the pair apologised to members for the outage, and said it had been \u201cextremely frustrating and disappointing\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They said the outage was caused by a misconfiguration that resulted in UniSuper\u2019s cloud account being deleted, something that had never happened to Google Cloud before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UniSuper CEO, Peter Chun, wrote to the fund\u2019s 620,000 members on Wednesday night, explaining the outage was not the result of a cyber-attack, and no personal data had been exposed as a result of the outage. Chun pinpointed Google\u2019s cloud service as the issue. In an extraordinary joint statement from Chun and the global [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}