T-Mobile: All Your Sidekick Data Has Been Lost Forever (via Mashable)

In T-Mobile’s words: “based on Microsoft/Danger’s latest recovery assessment of their systems, we must now inform you that personal information stored on your device – such as contacts, calendar entries, to-do lists or photos – that is no longer on your Sidekick almost certainly has been lost as a result of a server failure at Microsoft/Danger.”

The story is a jarring one for those storing increasing amounts of data in the “cloud”: as we become more reliant on servers to house our data, such losses can be catastrophic.

Awful for anyone who’s lost data… and a good reminder about the potential pitfalls of moving to the cloud. Definitely good to keep in mind that your data is always vulnerable, never hurts to have some redundancies built in. (note to self, run backup!)