Backupify, a provider of web based backup services for social networks and web apps, has just released an infographic on the top reasons for Google Apps data loss. The report tracks and consolidates a 100 data loss incidents on Google forums.

The top culprit for data loss is overwhelmingly user error, accounting for 63%. Trailing by a long way, the next leading cause was hacking, while 3% were accounted for by third party apps corrputing Google Apps (which ones?). In all cases, it was found that the data was irrecoverable after 5 days. Check out the infographic below:

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