Nine PBS, a St. Louis PBS affiliate, filed a lawsuit against Iron Mountain Data Centers to recover 50TB of irreplaceable data after its cloud storage provider Open Source Storage (OSS) went defunct and stopped responding. A judge has ordered Iron Mountain to surrender all physical devices holding the data, with Nine PBS tasked to retrieve it within 30 days via a former OSS employee.
Background
The case highlights the growing risk facing cultural institutions and broadcasters that rely on single-cloud-provider storage, especially when providers lack proper business continuity plans. Similar incidents have occurred with smaller hosting companies going bankrupt and leaving customers unable to access archived media.
- Source
- Ars Technica
- Published
- Aug 15, 2026 at 01:03 AM
- Score
- 6.0 / 10