(The claim felt so wild I wanted to check, and indeed, the private Google Cloud for the $125bn Australian pension fund was accidentally deleted by a provisioning misconfiguration. Any others?)
IIRC, the files for Toy Story 2 were accidentally deleted during production, and the film was only saved because someone on maternity leave had a backup at home.
Yes, Google randomly deleted UniSuper for basically the same reason they randomly ban individual customers: they don't care. Relying on them for anything is a huge mistake.
Turns out you can fuck up self hosting too.