Gadzooks Cahoots!

Cahoot’s blunder at failing to maintain access security on customer accounts serves to illustrate how important it is to have thorough testing and release procedures for software.

The trouble is the higher the profile, the higher the stakes - Internet banking could hardly have a greater need for security of data. So after spending millions developing and promoting the service, screwing up the testing of new releases is a fundamental error and could cost them dear.

At least they didn’t use the old statement: “it was a computer error”.