Hacker News with Generative AI: Data Loss

Data Lifeboat (flickr.org)
What should we do when a digital service sinks?
Man locked out of Google Drive and loses 9 year old photos after SIM Swap attack (bbc.co.uk)
A man says he has lost files, business records and all his online photos after "failings" by his mobile phone provider allowed fraudsters to take control of his phone.
Microsoft said it lost weeks of security logs for its customers' cloud products (techcrunch.com)
Microsoft has notified customers that it’s missing more than two weeks of security logs for some of its cloud products, leaving network defenders without critical data for detecting possible intrusions.
Twitter blog posts from 2019-2024 appear to be missing from Internet Archive (twitter.com)
We're losing our digital history. Can the Internet Archive save it? (bbc.com)
Research shows 25% of web pages posted between 2013 and 2023 have vanished. A few organisations are racing to save the echoes of the web, but new risks threaten their very existence.
We're losing our digital history. Can the Internet Archive save it? (bbc.com)
Research shows 25% of web pages posted between 2013 and 2023 have vanished. A few organisations are racing to save the echoes of the web, but new risks threaten their very existence.
20% of hard drives used for long-term music storage in the 90s have failed (tomshardware.com)
PSA: Internet Archive "glitch" deletes years of user data and accounts (gingerbeardman.com)
PSA: Internet Archive "glitch" deletes years of user data and accounts (gingerbeardman.com)
Loss of nearly a full decade of information from early days of Chinese internet (chinamediaproject.org)
"Unprecedented" Google Cloud event wipes out customer account and its backups (arstechnica.com)
Google accidentally deleted a $125B pension fund's account (qz.com)
Google Cloud accidentally deletes UniSuper's online account (unisuper.com.au)
UniSuper's Google Cloud environment was deleted (itnews.com.au)
Google Cloud accidentally deletes customer's account (theregister.com)
Firefox user lose 7,470 tabs saved over 2 years after they can't restore session (tomshardware.com)