Target Stores Nationwide Outage 15 June 2019

[danielj72]

Just a reminder to all of us the vulnerability of our tech dependence and how bad it could be if it were a large scale attack.

[Mike from back east]

The event is now front page on the Washington Post.

Interesting excerpt: "The big-box retailer experienced a similar systems failure exactly five years ago, when its registers went down for several hours on June 15, 2014."


Hmmmm.....

[BigDGeek]

As an IT professional, my guess is that they were rolling out a deployment and it went bad, forcing them to roll it back. Option B is accidental release of non-production candidate code into the wild. It happens.


I'm also guessing that Target's IT operations are heavily outsourced and are probably largely performed offshore with a small team of "leads" onshore at HQ directing their activities.

[Raddo]

Originally Posted by Mike from back east

The event is now front page on the Washington Post.

Interesting excerpt: "The big-box retailer experienced a similar systems failure exactly five years ago, when its registers went down for several hours on June 15, 2014."


Hmmmm.....

That was also a Sunday. My guess is they roll out their updates on Sundays. On the other hand: