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Hundreds of Microsoft customers awoke yesterday to find hundreds of Azure invoices of other customers in their inbox. Each customer was emailed not only their own invoice, but scores of bills intended for others. The Microsoft reseller who alerted us woke yesterday morning to find 187 emails in his inbox, all sent in the small …

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  1. Trollslayer
    Mushroom

    The usual

    Cost cutting by people who don't know and don't care about what is happening.

    8 0 Reply
  2. STOP_FORTH
    Trollface

    Computers do not make you smart,

    but they sure make it easier for you to appear to be stupid.

    8 0 Reply
  3. M7S

    “You may have incorrectly received...”

    No. You have incorrectly despatched.

    18 0 Reply
  4. Anonymous South African Coward Bronze badge

    Ah. Billware.

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    1. Ken Moorhouse Silver badge
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      Re: Ah. Billware.

      The new clothing range designed by Bill Gates?

      Featuring: boots galore, greyed-out buttons and dire warnings on opening zips without knowing what's inside.

      5 0 Reply
      1. STOP_FORTH
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        Re: Ah. Billware.

        No mackintoshes?

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  5. Dwarf

    Anyone else thinking GDPR at this point ??

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    1. Hans 1
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      Windows

      Not a customer, I have more than two working brain-cells, but if you are a customer, all others have received your invoice ... how do you feel now ?

      https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/report-a-breach/

      You are very welcome!

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  6. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Re: Your lovely stock photo thumbnail...

    Isn't that everyone's favourite privileged-son-of-a-showbiz-insider-with-all-the-right-connections-who-got-where-he-is-on-merit-we're-sure, Jack Whitehall?

    If so, can't we find something a bit more substantial than annoying bits of paper to throw at him?

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  7. Doctor Syntax Silver badge

    This Agile/DevOps stuff is so great. No need to test. Just shove it out, fix any balls-ups the users find and shove it out again. None of that inconvenient testing.

    3 0 Reply
  8. Ken Moorhouse Silver badge

    Azure in Open

    What does one expect with a name like that.

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  9. SVV

    AiO : All invoices Offered

    Highly embarassing cockup on the invoicing front : does the common "some customers" meaning "all customers" excuse for cloud failures apply here, meaning they only have 187 customers?

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  10. Anonymous Coward
    FAIL

    Ah Microsoft...

    With them it's always the same shit; it's just the pipe that varies.

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  11. Adrian 4

    another customer ?

    "saying: "[A]n invoice associated with your Azure in Open (AiO) subscription was inadvertently shared with another customer "

    Or, more correctly, it "was inadvertently shared with our other 186 customers".

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  12. Ken Moorhouse Silver badge

    This is what is known as...

    CloudFunding.

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