EPISODE · Mar 4, 2024 · 26 MIN
Cloud disasters: Musey deletes their own company!
from The Backup Wrap-Up
In this episode, we uncover the little-known but cautionary tale of Musey, a startup building an interior design app that catastrophically lost everything when an admin accidentally deleted their entire Google Workspace account.We dive deep into:How a single slip-up by an admin led to over $1.5 million of intellectual property stored in Google Drive getting instantly wiped outMusey's desperate attempts to get their data back by contacting Google and even filing a lawsuitHow not even the cloud giants like Google have an obligation to restore customer data lost due to error or malfeasanceWhy you absolutley need independent backups of cloud data instead of blindly trusting sync and retention policiesThe devastating story of Musey serves as a sobering reminder that human error can still trump even the most resilient cloud platforms. Don’t miss this rare peek behind the curtain at a colossal cloud failure that very few people know about.Story: https://www.theregister.com/2019/07/05/musey_v_google_lawsuit/Lawsuit filed: https://regmedia.co.uk/2019/07/05/musey_v_google.pdfLawsuit pulled: https://dockets.justia.com/docket/california/candce/4:2019cv03864/344456Museyapp.com 6/6/19 says “buy this domain”:https://web.archive.org/web/20190606022957/http://www.museyapp.com/
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