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My sister talks like this. Please help me.View quoted post on X
It began as a small job. A local administrator at the NHS had created a new distribution list for one support unit. A software configuration error sent the test message to roughly 840,000 NHSmail accounts instead.View quoted post on X
You open your inbox that Monday morning and there it is. An email you didn't ask for, from a stranger.
So you do what most of us would do. You hit "Reply all." "Please remove me from this list."
That message goes to 840,000 people. Some of them hit "Reply all" too, asking everyone to stop. Others took to social media to beg people to stop. Every new reply was another message to the whole list.
Between 8:29 and 9:45, about 500 million emails crossed the network, according to the NHS Digital report. A normal day is three to five million. In 75 minutes, the system carried roughly what it normally handles in three months. Some people received more than 300 replies.
Then email stopped working. Staff were locked out of their accounts for hours, and some for days, on a system that 1.2 million NHS workers relied on.
Once NHS Digital spotted the spike, it turned off "Reply all" across the whole service and deleted the faulty list. Service started returning to normal on Tuesday afternoon.
Nobody planned any of it. A test message, a system setting that let it reach everyone, and a reflex all of us have.
Every office has someone who replied all to ask people to stop replying all.
Which one are you?
The announcement called it a merger. Eighty staff at a law firm were told they were joining a bigger firm.View quoted post on X
Weeks later, the administrator's report said otherwise. The firm had been sold out of administration, after its biggest client suffered an IT failure.
It couldn't even advertise that it was for sale.
Here's why.
