Salesforce: one unscoped database script opened all Pardot data and darkened 105 instances
A fix script gave all Pardot users read-write access to everything; Salesforce cut 105 instances offline and took days to repair permissions.
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2,000 PUBLISHED CASES · REGULARLY UPDATEDBharat Global Developers faked client orders to build a ₹12,000 crore paper value
It invented orders from lookalikes of McCain, UPL and Tata to pump a ₹12,000 crore market cap — SEBI suspended the stock and froze ₹271.6 crore.
Read the caseReckitt de-listed Gaviscon from the NHS to keep generics out — £10.2M abuse penalty
In 2005 Reckitt pulled Gaviscon Original out of NHS prescribing before its generic name existed, so the software steered doctors to pricier Gaviscon Advance.
Read the caseAIMIL sold BGR-34 as a diabetes cure with no proof; ASCI banned it as unlawful
An ayurvedic pill from two publicly funded CSIR labs was sold as curing type 2 diabetes with no side effects; ASCI ruled the claim unproven and unlawful.
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A pilot on impairing drugs hit the Bay Bridge in fog; the master never took over, and Fleet Management's training failed — a 53,500-gallon spill followed.
Read the caseOne supplier's dirty brake line recalled 1.5 million BMWs.
BMW's largest-ever recall traced to one Continental brake module, where circuit-board contamination cut power braking across 1.5M cars.
Read the casePanjab University: Vishwa Jit Gupta's 458 Himalayan geology papers were mostly fabricated
Vishwa Jit Gupta published 458 papers on Himalayan geology. Most were fabricated. He was suspended, reinstated, and retired with full benefits.
Read the caseDollar Shave Club's $1 price was a loss leader — and became a billion-dollar exit
Dubin launched a razor subscription at $1 per month — a price that lost money on every sale. The viral video made it a hit. Unilever bought it for $1 billion.
Read the casePaule Ka dressed royalty for 37 years — then the Paris court liquidated it in three months
French fashion brand Paule Ka entered redressement judiciaire in April 2024 and was liquidated by July — €63M peak revenue, dressed Catherine Princess of Wales
Read the caseCCI fined Meta ₹213 crore for WhatsApp's take-it-or-leave-it privacy policy
CCI fined Meta ₹213.14 crore for WhatsApp's no-choice 2021 privacy policy; NCLAT kept the fine in 2025 but lifted the ad-data ban.
Read the caseJPMorgan's 'London Whale' lost $6.2B — and the risk model had a spreadsheet error
A JPMorgan trader built $150B+ in credit derivative positions. The risk model that should have caught it had a copy-paste error. Loss: $6.2B.
Read the caseFive Doctors' vulgar elevator ad was fined ¥400k — the apology changed nothing
'Hubby made me mad, drink!' — fined ¥400k. The apology came that night; the same ads and worse claims kept running, and the fines kept coming.
Read the caseVenice's €6bn MOSE flood barrier: nine years late, tainted by corruption, tested at last
Kickbacks and a captured consortium stalled Venice's flood shield; the record 2019 tide hit an undefended city, and the gates first worked only in 2020.
Read the caseZadeh Kicks was a $80M sneaker pre-order fraud — its owner got 70 months in prison
Michael Malekzadeh took $65M+ in pre-orders for sneakers he couldn't deliver, then defrauded banks for $15M more. Sentenced to 70 months in Jan 2026.
Read the caseeBay v. Newmark: craigslist's freeze-out of eBay struck down by Delaware Chancery
craigslist diluted eBay's 28.4% stake to push it out; Delaware Chancery held fiduciary duties run to every stockholder of a for-profit corporation.
Read the casePierre Cardin put his name on frying pans and cigarettes. The house never recovered.
He licensed his couture name across hundreds of products, cars to cigarettes. By the 1990s the cachet was gone — for sale for 25 years at €1B, no buyer.
Read the caseCho Jin-woong's retirement stranded tvN's Signal 2 — a hundreds-of-billions-won sequel
Allegations surfaced; he retired within a day; tvN's 20th-anniversary sequel — a hundreds-of-billions-won production — has no practical replacement.
Read the caseBalmuda bet its design magic on a phone — and quit the market eighteen months later
Japan's premium appliance maker launched a smartphone at over ¥100,000. Eighteen months later it conceded the attempt had 'grandly failed' and walked away.
Read the caseThe Stanford prison experiment was a landmark study — and likely a deeply flawed one
In 1971 Philip Zimbardo's Stanford prison experiment seemed to show how situations turn people cruel. Decades later, evidence of coaching and demand.
Read the casePalace cancelled its Nike Air Max 95 NYC release after wristband chaos and arrests
Palace scrapped the in-store New York release of its Nike Air Max 95 collab after wristband day ended in shoving, two assault arrests and a police shutdown.
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