After losing my own 10 year old Gmail and running around the internet hunting down employees for 5+ months only to get a canned automatic response.
I learned to not trust any service. Ever.
I've even been hacked by rouge employees of fortune 500 companies. Only because of my experience I was able to get my account back after being hacked for 5 - 10 minutes.
Backup yo shit fam. - IT guy who has been backing up to 3+ different hard drives since 2008.