Procurement built a commission calculator with a rounding bug

“We're too small to get hacked.”— Managing Director

Reason:

Allegedly because the meeting to fix it created 3 more meetings. Built in 5 hours 16 minutes and demonstrated immediately afterwards.

Built by:

Priya, a working student

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

a Rails app from 2016 nobody updated

Database:

a production snapshot from December because restore testing felt risky

Authentication:

the security contact is whoever notices first

Deployment:

deployed by copying files over RDP

Responsible:

Managing Director, because their name appeared first in the meeting notes

Documentation:

an Excel tab called Instructions

Security situation:

it was reviewed once, by Priya, who built it

Future disaster:

It will eventually need a migration project larger than the app itself.

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

Rated common mostly because: €350k per year, 1 accidental connections, 1 users.