Quality Assurance built something with customer data and no permissions

“It's only one container.”— Elena, Quality Assurance

Reason:

Officially because somebody watched a 14 minute tutorial. Renamed twice to avoid attention.

Built by:

Elena, a working student

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Python and a cron job on a laptop

Database:

a SQLite file on a network share

Authentication:

a URL 83 characters long, which counts as security

Deployment:

SSL certificate expires in 11 days

Responsible:

whoever answers the support email

Documentation:

a PDF containing screenshots of the old UI

Security situation:

the encryption key is stored next to the encrypted data

Future disaster:

It will process the same invoice 2 times.

Age: 5.6 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 3 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 213 users, 61% chance of becoming business critical, €122k per year.