Facilities built Excel with a login screen

“We're too small to get hacked.”— Miriam, Facilities

Reason:

Allegedly because the shared password was last changed 88 days ago. With 48 users and 23 feature requests.

Built by:

Miriam, a team lead

Build time:

4 evenings

Built with:

an Electron app, for a form

Database:

an FTP server nobody knows the password for

Authentication:

the audit log is a text file called audit-final.txt

Deployment:

kept alive by a scheduled task every 5 minutes

Responsible:

Finance, according to IT

Documentation:

one README with 9 TODOs

Security situation:

security is handled by a checkbox called admin

Future disaster:

It will discover there are no backups.

Age: 3.7 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 3 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 210 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 4 departments depend on it, €81k per year, 24% chance of becoming business critical.