On February 6th, the Reference Catalog in region DE had inconsistent catalog items between 02:30
and 23:10 UTC
. Those items remained visible in the catalog with incorrect names.
As a result, those items appeared in recommendations when creating new fact sheets, and also when linking fact sheets to the catalog. The incident impacted Reference Catalog items for Applications, IT Components and Providers in the the following views:
The Reference Catalog of the affected region was appropriately fixed, removing the entries with incorrect names and restoring the Reference Catalog with the correct items.
The indexing of the data in the Reference Catalog backend was not up-to-date, leading to incorrect synchronization steps that resulted in the creation of items with incorrect names.
A safety mechanism has been introduced to avoid mass creation of catalog items.