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App #1565 ยท ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง the United Kingdom
Disaster score 82Common

Finance built an export compliance checklist

Users10
Departments0
Criticality3%
Money involvedโ‚ฌ267/yr
โ€œThe firewall should block it.โ€โ€” Daniel, Finance
Reason:
Honestly? Because the budget appeared unexpectedly on Friday. With a logo generated at 17:08.
Built by:
Daniel, an intern
Build time:
an afternoon, mostly
Built with:
an Electron app, for a form
Database:
a column called misc
Authentication:
the shared account belongs to Katrin, who left 16 months ago
Deployment:
running on localhost through a tunnel
Responsible:
Nadia, because they clicked "create project" first
Documentation:
a README containing 11 broken links
Security situation:
the threat model is "why would anyone attack us?"
Future disaster:
It will discover the backup password left with Nadia.

Accidentally connected to (1)

  • โ†’ depends on Nadia's personal Google Drive

Age: 353 days ยท originally expected to last 3 months ยท 1 owner so far ยท last meaningful change 353 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 1 accidental connections, 10 users, alive 4x longer than intended.

Current owner

Nobody has taken responsibility for this disaster.

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