Cross-tenant data leak
Your task
A multi-tenant SaaS shards data by tenant_id; every write must include it as the partition key. At 11:00 a feature flag enabled a new 'fast path' write handler for 5% of traffic. By 11:40, support escalates: a few tenants see another tenant's records appearing in their lists, and some of their own new records are 'missing'. Dashboards: write success 100%, error rate flat, no auth failures. The new handler derives tenant_id from a cached request context. How do you triage, stop the cross-tenant contamination immediately, and remediate?
It covers
- Tenant isolation
- Feature flag
- Wrong partition
- Cross tenant leak