As a tech person, I read through the article and the analysis it linked to. This disrupted but didn’t destroy anything. I think this is a normal consequence of the huge amount of technological leverage being used. This company was wise and had a backup strategy outside its main cloud vendor. Some wouldn’t have been so fortunate.
I am always interested in the covert angle but I see nothing significant here having seen the details, which include human error (probably both at Google and at the company) and an unexpected setting in a publicly available 3rd party script.
a joint statement from UniSuper and Google Cloud saying that the outage was not the result of a cyberattack.
Whew! It was just incompetence..I feel better.
The whole idea of storing your data on Google, or AWS or any of those cloud services just seems problematic. "We don't like you, <insert reason here>, and you get the Parlor treatment.
Oops.
... Or test run for the happening?
As a tech person, I read through the article and the analysis it linked to. This disrupted but didn’t destroy anything. I think this is a normal consequence of the huge amount of technological leverage being used. This company was wise and had a backup strategy outside its main cloud vendor. Some wouldn’t have been so fortunate.
I am always interested in the covert angle but I see nothing significant here having seen the details, which include human error (probably both at Google and at the company) and an unexpected setting in a publicly available 3rd party script.
This ^
Whew! It was just incompetence..I feel better.
The whole idea of storing your data on Google, or AWS or any of those cloud services just seems problematic. "We don't like you, <insert reason here>, and you get the Parlor treatment.
Sooooo, the manager of this pension fund didn't think to back up all this information on a flash drive???
Apparently they had backups with other providers, so they are good, for now
Sure it did. More stolen money. Yeah, let's do crypto.