Google Cloud deletes UniSuper's private cloud
A misconfiguration at Google Cloud deleted Australian pension fund UniSuper's entire private cloud subscription, leaving more than 600,000 members unable to access accounts for about two weeks.
- Service
- UniSuper (Google Cloud)
- Date
- 2 May 2024
- Cause
- Provider error
- Duration
- Not stated or multi-day
- Status
- resolved
- Severity
- critical
- Region
- Global
- Source
- The Register ↗
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “Google Cloud deletes UniSuper's private cloud”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 2 May 2024. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2024-05-02-unisuper-google-cloud-outage/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).
This entry summarises public reporting. Please also cite the original source: The Register, https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/09/unisuper_google_cloud_outage_caused.
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