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Comment by throwawaygoog31 | Hacker News Reader

This is completely false. TA account because I am not authorized to speak on this, but that’s not at all what happened.

The official statement from google:

“During the initial deployment of a Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) Private Cloud for the customer using an internal tool, there was an inadvertent misconfiguration of the GCVE service by Google operators due to leaving a parameter blank. This had the unintended and then unknown consequence of defaulting the customer’s GCVE Private Cloud to a fixed term, with automatic deletion at the end of that period.”

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/detail...

Are you saying that Google lied about being responsible for it? What would they possibly gain from that?

> Are you saying that Google lied about being responsible for it?

The original news article says Google deleted the account. As per your quote and official statement - no account has been deleted.

So that news article is completely false. Point proven.

The difference between deleting an account and deleting everything in the account is semantics.

Or did I get poe's lawed?

I think the latest public information was that it was a VMware "private cloud", a set of VMs, in GCP which accidentally had an expiration date set. So no GCP projects/billing accounts were ever deleted. Is that accurate?

What is an expiration date if not a scheduled deletion date? Is it a soft-deletion? It's clearly ambiguous to me, who has no previous knowledge of this event before a minute ago. "Google auto deletes account at expiration date" seems to be a reasonable interpretation of what's been presented to me so far.

We should always maintain a healthy skepticism in either direction, and maybe supporting that is your purpose, but: why should your throwaway account be believed?

Well go on then, tell us more.

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