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Microsoft 365 outage leads to chlorine gas poisoning of 15 hotel guests

https://www1.wdr.de/nrw/rheinland/rhein-erft-kreis/technischer-defekt-chlor-phantasialand-100.html
33•DeepLogin•55m ago

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k310•13m ago
https://www1-wdr-de.translate.goog/nrw/rheinland/rhein-erft-...

> 15 guests injured at Phantasialand

> Due to the (Microsoft) disruption, no emails were received, as the company informed WDR on Saturday. As a result, no one was aware that the sauna area's maintenance safety system had already issued an email alert. This was because the automatic dosing system had pumped too much chlorine into the pool.

londons_explore•11m ago
Employee finds pool water has dangerous amounts of chlorine, yet instead of locking the door to the pool they just send an email into the void?
Animats•8m ago
Apparently the alarm system sent its alarms via email.

"As a result, no one was aware that the sauna area's maintenance safety system had already issued an email alert. This was because the automatic dosing system had pumped too much chlorine into the pool."

We're in an era where alarms go out via email, major policy changes are announced on Truth Social, and war is declared on X/Twitter.

ocdtrekkie•7m ago
This is an automated system almost certainly. It monitors the chemistry and sends alerts if things fall out of range.
N19PEDL2•3m ago
This is 100% fault of the hotel, not of Microsoft. It’s unacceptable that the communications regarding such a dangerous thing totally rely on email, without any backup or double check.

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