The “Google banned our entire company” story was likely a fake

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In the interests of correcting potentially misleading news, a couple of responses from Googlers on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17120223 and Reddit (same content as on HN: https://www.reddit.com/r/google/comments/8l231x/google_banned_an_entire_company_gsuite_accounts/dzcw5vg/) suggest the original post was fake (as some had guessed).

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Regardless, having lost access to my first Google account, it's still a good cautionary tale.

In my case, for whatever reason, Google stopped believing that I was the owner of the account, even though I knew my password and secret questions, and was coming from the same IP I had been for years. In addition, a friend inside the company who personally vouched for me was still unable to fix the problem.

Google is a point of failure. Be sure you're prepared for the day your account disappears.

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