The Backup Wrap-Up

Cloud disasters: Musey deletes their own company!


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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 out
  • Musey's desperate attempts to get their data back by contacting Google and even filing a lawsuit
  • How not even the cloud giants like Google have an obligation to restore customer data lost due to error or malfeasance
  • Why you absolutley need independent backups of cloud data instead of blindly trusting sync and retention policies

The 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.pdf

Lawsuit pulled: https://dockets.justia.com/docket/california/candce/4:2019cv03864/344456

Museyapp.com 6/6/19 says “buy this domain”:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190606022957/http://www.museyapp.com/

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