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App #997 · 🇨🇭 Switzerland
Disaster score 570Legendary

Supply Chain built a custom survey tool for one annual survey

✨ Friday deployment🕸️ Load bearing
Users1
Departments0
Criticality12%
Money involved€83,794/yr
We're too small to get hacked.Plant Manager
Reason:
Mainly because the vendor quoted €249 and a discovery phase. With a roadmap in the README, last touched 11 days ago.
Built by:
Nadia, an intern
Build time:
a long Thursday
Built with:
Lovable, plus one emergency GitHub edit
Database:
filenames. The filenames are the database.
Authentication:
the encryption key is stored next to the encrypted data
Deployment:
deployed Friday at 11:54
Responsible:
a contractor invoicing €1051/day through a third party
Documentation:
a Loom video whose owner account has been deleted
Security situation:
the API key has never been rotated
Future disaster:
It will be mentioned in an audit finding using the words "material weakness".

Accidentally connected to (6)

  • shares one service account with 4 integrations
  • queries a database view nobody owns
  • downloads nightly exports from an SFTP server nobody monitors
  • depends on column C never being renamed
  • depends on a file called latest.csv
  • prints labels on a warehouse printer, directly

⚠️ Removing this app may now destroy the company.

Age: 13 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 6 accidental connections, €84k per year, it is load bearing.

Current owner

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