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Google accidentally deleted a $125B pension fund's account


About half a million customers of the Australian fund UniSuper were locked out of their accounts for a week

The company accidentally erased the private Google Cloud account of a $125 billion Australian pension fund, UniSuper. And nearly half a million companies across the globe use Google Cloud as a “platform-as-a-service,” or client-facing tool, including Volkswagen and Royal Bank of Canada. Our free, fast, and fun briefing on the global economy, delivered every weekday morning.

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