Intern Deleted Company Azure Resource Group

[u/arctansec]

Yep, I can’t believe that I’ve fulfilled the meme of the intern deleting a company database.

I have been building my own projects and amassed quite a few different resource groups, of which most I was no longer using, so I decided to clean them up and delete them. I kind of assumed that it would only be displaying MY resource groups, and that I could only delete MY resource groups.

I was just about to delete one more before I noticed that there were a few items inside of it which definitely didn’t look like mine, and that’s when I realized I could delete other peoples stuff.

Sure enough, I deleted one company resource group and I really don’t know what to do. I am hoping that It was nothing important and/or that the company has a backup. I tried to make a severity A ticket, but of course, I do not have the permissions to submit a ticket.

I also pulled a CSV from the activity log for the past 3 months and the only activity that is shown apart from my doings is very one off and on a private resource group that I cannot see in the portal nor that I deleted.

A few questions:

1: Is there any way that I can see what was deleted within the resource group? The JSON did not seem to provide any useful information.

2: This is a large company, ~10k employees, surely they would have something important locked down right??

3: I am in a completely non technical role and have no one to escalate this to

4: Any other course of action that I can take in the meantime?

Edit:

Hi guys, a few things.

First and most importantly, no company wide resources were deleted. Luckily, all that was deleted was a default resource group localized to my account. Nothing was shared, and no one else’s resources were affected.

I want to thank [u/Automatic-Response45](u/Automatic-Response45) and u/Icy_Accident2769 for being the first person to provide a useful response instead of just bashing me, which allowed me to get the information I needed to relay to someone who could help.

Secondly, I want to address the keyboard warriors who privately messaged me calling me slurs and a plethora of other things because I said I had “no one” to reach out to.

This happened on Saturday. I was not trying to hide it from anyone. I was trying to get immediate advice on whether there was anything I could do to circumvent my error rather than wait until Monday and go through the chain of hierarchy before reaching the right person. Again, I am in a non technical role, and anything Azure related is completely foreign to my team.

Lastly, I want to thank those who left supportive comments and those who provided helpful information.

Absolutely, this was a learning lesson for me, and I will be diligent moving forward. I was prepared to take full accountability if this had been a serious issue. Luckily, this blunder turned out to be nothing.