Finance built a returns processing tool

“There's already a Confluence page.”— Finance Business Partner

Reason:

Allegedly because the admin account belongs to somebody who left 5 months ago. Renamed three times to avoid attention.

Built by:

Anja, an intern

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Make.com being used as infrastructure

Database:

an email inbox used as the database

Authentication:

passwords are stored in plaintext, for troubleshooting

Deployment:

last deployed 141 days ago

Responsible:

Operations, but they strongly disagree

Documentation:

none, but the variable names are "pretty clear"

Security situation:

production secrets are in the README

Future disaster:

It will discover the backup password left with Nadia.

Age: 1.1 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 210 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 19x longer than intended, 25 users, €107 per year.