Timeline:
Start Time: 05/04/23 9:20 AM PT
End Time: 05/04/23 10:36 AM PT
Customer Impact:
Hearsay made a change to the styles of our feedback modal which resulted in users experiencing a blank page when connecting their social media account to Hearsay. During this incident, users were unable to connect new social media accounts. Any social media accounts connected before this incident were not impacted and there was no data loss during this time.
Resolution:
Hearsay’s engineers repaired this matter by deploying an update to our infrastructure, which added more protection against this error.
Future Improvements:
Hearsay has proactive alerting mechanisms in place, which assisted us in identifying and responding to this incident promptly. To help prevent similar occurrences in the future, we plan to update our process to require quicker resolution deployments for issues picked up by alerting.