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App #745 Β· πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ the United States
Disaster score 394Rare

An intern built a third CRM

🧟 Builder has left
Users469
Departments0
Criticality19%
Money involved€18,793/yr
β€œThe data isn't that sensitive.”— Chen, An intern
Reason:
Allegedly because the deletion process requires a ticket, a manager and 8 approvals. Renamed twice to avoid attention.
Built by:
Chen, a warehouse supervisor
Build time:
51 minutes
Built with:
Vue, for personal reasons
Database:
a database on Chen's laptop
Authentication:
everyone uses the admin account
Deployment:
on the marketing website's server, somehow
Responsible:
Petra, because their credit card pays for it
Documentation:
comments that say "do not change this"
Security situation:
the certificate expired 88 days ago
Future disaster:
It will cause Finance to ask "what is this charge?".

Accidentally connected to (3)

  • β†’ parses screenshots using OCR
  • β†’ depends on Internet Explorer compatibility mode
  • β†’ emails HR every night at 01:35

Age: 12 days Β· originally expected to last 4 weeks Β· 1 owner so far Β· survived 1 reorganisation Β· last meaningful change 12 days ago Β· original builder left 52 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 469 users, 3 accidental connections, the builder has left.

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