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Lost ALL of my data, and cannot get a human from Atlassian

Justin Golden
December 12, 2025

I had a jira board with all of my project info. I had hundreds of items and all my ideas on it. It seems like Atlassian decided to DELETE IT and I cannot access it. It's my board, I'm the only user, and this is my only account. I was promised by their automated system I would get a reply in 12 hours and it's been days and I've now reached out several times.

 

How can I get a human and/or get access to my missing Jira board?

 

Thank you in advance!

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Trudy Claspill
Community Champion
December 12, 2025

Hello @Justin Golden 

Welcome to the Atlassian community.

Is this a Free or paid instance of Jira?

When you say you are the only user, are you the only user of this Jira instance or the only user of that particular board?

What happens when you try to access the board? Do you get a message? If so, what is the message?

When was the last time you accessed any data in this Jira instance?

Do you still have access to other information in the Jira instance?

If this is a scenario where:

  • you don't have access to any other data
  • it is/was a free subscription
  • prior to this attempt you had not access the instance in 120 or more consecutive days

...then Atlassian may have deactivated the subscription due to inactivity. If that is the case they would've sent emails to the Organization Admin(s) warning of the prolonged inactivity and impending deactivation.

If you still have access to some data, then the above may not be the case.

If you still have access to some data have you checked if the project itself still exists? You may be in a scenario where the board was deleted but the project still exists.

Or the project may have been deleted or archived?

Atlassian doesn't really provide telephone support except, I think, when the subscriber is on an Enterprise plan.

When did you open your support case?

Through what link did you open your support case?

 

With answers to some of the questions above we may be able to provide guidance that is more directly applicable to your situation.

Justin Golden
December 12, 2025

Thank you for the quick reply! It's a free instance. Only user for everything.

The message I get is:

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Page unavailable
Your Atlassian Cloud site is currently unavailable.

Please check Atlassian Status for known problems.
If there are no known problems and your page hasn't appeared again in 5-10 minutes then please contact our support team.

---

I don't have any information. The only atlassian product I used was Jira and this was the only board I made. I don't think that will be changing unless I can get my data back.

It seems possible they deleted it. I'm hoping they have some backup somewhere. I just want to access it for one day to move everything off. Rather absurd they would delete 0.01mb of data to "save space" especially when it's all of the notes and plans for my entire project. I guess this is what I get for not using their product for a few months.

I reached out probably around a week ago and then made another ticket yesterday. Both times I got a notification saying someone would reach out in 12 hours and neither times that actually happened.

I opened the support ticket through their support link and selected "Jira" as the product and filled out the form, attached a screenshot and attached the link to my board.

 

Thank you again for your help.

 

Trudy Claspill
Community Champion
December 12, 2025

How long ago was the last time you successfully accessed the site/data?

Atlassian has a documented policy that they reserve the right to remove unused instances. The cutoff is 120 consecutive  days of inactivity and they send multiple emails warning that there has been an extended period of inactivity prior to that period expiring.

They sand another email when they deactivate the subscription, warning that the data will soon be permanently deleted if the customer doesn't reactivate the subscription. If that grace period also expires the data is no longer recoverable.

You can try reactivating the subscription by following the guidance here:

https://support.atlassian.com/subscriptions-and-billing/docs/reactivate-a-subscription/

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