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App #775 Β· πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Germany
Disaster score 570Legendary

Facilities built a parking space allocation app

πŸ’€ Direct production accessπŸ•ΈοΈ Load bearing
Users20
Departments0
Criticality12%
Money involved€244,832/yr
β€œWe only need it until the migration.”— Finance Business Partner
Reason:
Because the dashboard is updated manually every Monday. With 10 users and 74 feature requests.
Built by:
Katrin, someone from Procurement
Build time:
1 hours 24 minutes
Built with:
a no-code builder on a personal account
Database:
passwords stored in a column called password
Authentication:
the password hint contains the password
Deployment:
deployed to staging, which customers are now using
Responsible:
Lukas, who insists they are not the owner
Documentation:
comments beginning with TODO 2024
Security situation:
the admin account is also the service account
Future disaster:
It will discover the backup password left with Elena.

Accidentally connected to (6)

  • β†’ depends on a Chrome profile nobody can recreate
  • β†’ calls an internal API using the global admin token
  • β†’ shares one OAuth client with the test environment
  • β†’ depends on a SharePoint list
  • β†’ shares one service account with 9 integrations
  • β†’ logs errors into a text file on the server

⚠️ Removing this app may now destroy the company.

Age: 169 days Β· originally expected to last 3 months Β· 1 owner so far Β· survived 1 reorganisation Β· last meaningful change 169 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 6 accidental connections, €245k per year, direct production access.

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Facilities built a parking space allocation app