diff --git a/settings/BackgroundJobs/VerifyUserData.php b/settings/BackgroundJobs/VerifyUserData.php
index 56ebadff9c..cf71cbd67b 100644
--- a/settings/BackgroundJobs/VerifyUserData.php
+++ b/settings/BackgroundJobs/VerifyUserData.php
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ class VerifyUserData extends Job {
 		$lookupServerData = $this->queryLookupServer($cloudId);
 
 		// for some reasons we couldn't read any data from the lookup server, try again later
-		if (empty($lookupServerData)) {
+		if (empty($lookupServerData) || empty($lookupServerData[$dataType])) {
 			return false;
 		}