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Originally Posted by Acathla
Because the contract to look after their data was with the Cloud Storage firm, not with the individual. The Storage company allowed unauthorised access to their data and it is them that are at fault.
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Indeed. If they had working procedures in place, it would not have mattered what the individual did, they'd have been able to get the data even assuming he had been able to delete it.
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I think there is a couple of things we can all learn from this, whether we are just storing data for ourselves, or whether we are managing data storage for a company or large organisation.
1) Ensure you have access to backups that are both up to date and known to be restorable.
2) If you should use a cloud storage provider, you need to be able to verify that they will both hold the data securely (you wouldn't want your competitors accessing it, would you?) and they can retrieve the data from backup quickly for you in the event of problems.