Incident Report
A quick incident write-up about a mistake I made that caused 666a to over-alert for a day or so.
I take operating this service really seriously and wanted to get in touch and explain. I’ve been tweaking the diarium update algorithm this week to try to avoid missing documents if they’re filed late and then backdated to earlier in the week. While doing so I made a small coding mistake that turned on email notifications for all documents.
This weekend there was a minor incident where 666a over-alerted a little bit, resulting in a total of less than 100 email alerts to be sent in error. No data loss or privacy breaches occurred as part of this incident, just a few emails getting sent that shouldn't have.
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