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App #855 Β· πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ the United States
Disaster score 277Common

An intern built a status page for internal systems

☠️ No known owner🧟 Builder has left
Users11
Departments1
Criticality6%
Money involved€232,161/yr
β€œThe firewall should block it.”— Nadia, An intern
Reason:
Mainly because the nightly job requires somebody to click "continue". With 82 users and zero documentation.
Built by:
Nadia, an intern
Build time:
2 hours 29 minutes
Built with:
Svelte, which nobody else here writes
Database:
a JSON file in Git called production-data.json
Authentication:
the security model is "we have antivirus"
Deployment:
deployed with a shell script called deploy-final.sh
Responsible:
an agency acquired by another agency
Documentation:
a Confluence page owned by Priya, who left
Security situation:
MFA exists for the admin account, which everybody shares
Future disaster:
It will get SSO after somebody shares the password publicly.

Accidentally connected to (1)

  • β†’ uses the same API key in test and production

Age: 13 days Β· originally expected to last 3 weeks Β· 1 owner so far Β· last meaningful change 13 days ago Β· original builder left 52 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €232k per year, nobody owns it, the builder has left.

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