--- title: PBS station fears losing 50TB of data after being... description: St. Louis PBS affiliate Nine PBS sued Iron Mountain Data Centers after its cloud storage provider, Open Source Storage, went defunct and became unresponsive,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/pbs-station-fears-losing-50tb-of-data-after-being-ghosted-by-cloud-storage-provider-dhrzl0s4h twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: PBS station fears losing 50TB of data after being ghosted by cloud storage provider | daily.dev og:description: St. Louis PBS affiliate Nine PBS sued Iron Mountain Data Centers after its cloud storage provider, Open Source Storage, went defunct and became unresponsive,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/pbs-station-fears-losing-50tb-of-data-after-being-ghosted-by-cloud-storage-provider-dhrzl0s4h og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/DHRZl0S4h.png og:image:alt: PBS station fears losing 50TB of data after being ghosted by cloud storage provider og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # PBS station fears losing 50TB of data after being ghosted by cloud storage provider **[Ars Technica](https://daily.dev/sources/arstechnica)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary St. Louis PBS affiliate Nine PBS sued Iron Mountain Data Centers after its cloud storage provider, Open Source Storage, went defunct and became unresponsive, leaving 50TB of archival data (including COVID-19 coverage and footage of the 1993 flood) inaccessible. A Denver District Court judge blocked Iron Mountain from deleting or modifying the data and ruled it must hand over the physical devices, while Nine PBS must find a third party, such as a former OSS employee, to help retrieve the data within 30 days without affecting other OSS clients' data. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What happens to your data if your cloud storage provider suddenly goes out of business? Data can become inaccessible if the underlying data center operator refuses to release it without proper authorization or a former employee to verify client boundaries. In one case, a defunct storage reseller, Open Source Storage, left St. Louis PBS affiliate Nine PBS unable to reach 50TB of archival footage stored at an Iron Mountain data center, forcing a lawsuit and a court order for retrieval. _daily.dev surfaces stories like this for teams reassessing backup and vendor redundancy strategies._ ### Can a data center refuse to give a customer their own stored data? Yes, when the storage relationship runs through an intermediary reseller that has gone defunct, a data center operator may claim it lacks authorization to release the underlying customer's data directly. Iron Mountain told reporters it had no access rights to the 50TB of Nine PBS data stored via reseller Open Source Storage, prompting a lawsuit and a judge's order to hand over the physical devices. _Teams weighing direct-vendor versus reseller cloud contracts can track cases like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [DSHR's Blog: Internet Archive's Storage](https://daily.dev/posts/dshr-s-blog-internet-archive-s-storage-tkqwoob59) · Hacker News · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/pbs-station-fears-losing-50tb-of-data-after-being-ghosted-by-cloud-storage-provider-dhrzl0s4h) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"PBS station fears losing 50TB of data after being ghosted by cloud storage provider","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/pbs-station-fears-losing-50tb-of-data-after-being-ghosted-by-cloud-storage-provider-dhrzl0s4h","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/pbs-station-fears-losing-50tb-of-data-after-being-ghosted-by-cloud-storage-provider-dhrzl0s4h"},"datePublished":"2026-08-14T19:32:23.552Z","dateModified":"2026-08-14T20:15:31.775Z","description":"St. Louis PBS affiliate Nine PBS sued Iron Mountain Data Centers after its cloud storage provider, Open Source Storage, went defunct and became unresponsive,...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/4e61d8f5e41b985ec5eb59faed0c2046?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/4e61d8f5e41b985ec5eb59faed0c2046?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Ars Technica","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Ars Technica","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/80883e0e48a34b5ebcf93777016cb3fe","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/arstechnica"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/pbs-station-fears-losing-50tb-of-data-after-being-ghosted-by-cloud-storage-provider-dhrzl0s4h","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"","timeRequired":"PT2M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Ars Technica","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/arstechnica"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"PBS station fears losing 50TB of data after being ghosted by cloud storage provider"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/pbs-station-fears-losing-50tb-of-data-after-being-ghosted-by-cloud-storage-provider-dhrzl0s4h#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"What happens to your data if your cloud storage provider suddenly goes out of business?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Data can become inaccessible if the underlying data center operator refuses to release it without proper authorization or a former employee to verify client boundaries. 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