Google has dozens of services used by millions of people. If this is the case, the company has a major responsibility to protect the data. However, news from Australia shows that the tech giant recently made a very serious mistake.

In the incident that took place in recent weeks, Google wrongly accused an Australian-based pension fund. UniSuper Google Cloud his account deleted. UniSuper, He managed a $125 billion fund.

More than half a million members were unable to access their accounts for a period of time

After this mistake by Google, more than half a million members of the UniSuper fund were unable to access it for a week. During this process, UniSuper has informed its members that they have not been exposed to a cyber attack and that no one has been your personal information will not be leaked he claimed. Members were also informed that it was a Google error. Fortunately, the problem is solved by UniSuper. have a backup account with the cloud provider It was resolved within a short time and everything was restored.

Google Cloud boss Thomas Kurian and UniSuper CEO Peter Chun said in a joint statement that the incident “one of thousandshe claimed. Both parties apologized and stated that such an incident should not have happened.

Kurian, this strange situation an unintended configuration He adds that this happened as a result of a series of events that resulted and UniSuper’s subscription was removed. The company also underlined that it has taken precautions to prevent something like this from happening again. We know that many companies and governments around the world are starting to move data to the cloud. Therefore, such incidents must be prevented.