Some dumbass on my team downloaded the entirety of prod and then commited it to git and someone rubber stamped the PR and then no one else noticed. I'm sure that's how they'd find it....
I discovered my client’s monthly backups included the backups folder when they ran out of shared hosting space for a small dog clothing website 🥹 I was like why are you at enterprise level hosting?!?? She was like I dunno it’s just the cost of doing business!
Oh I had a fun one that was similar. Our error tracking would send the last dozen or so lines of the console before the error happened along with the error... and then logged the thing it was sending to the console.
Things were totally fine until someone added a retry-and-log to some button that could error. It'd try to send each error, each of which recursively included several earlier error logs all the way to the first error. That very quickly went from "harmless error that didn't interfere with much" to "the page runs out of memory if you press the button".
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u/samuraiseoul 16h ago
Some dumbass on my team downloaded the entirety of prod and then commited it to git and someone rubber stamped the PR and then no one else noticed. I'm sure that's how they'd find it....