BBVA's Simple shutdown locked customers out of their accounts on day one
BBVA shut the beloved app-only bank Simple and botched the migration: logins failed, call centers overwhelmed, no timeline to fix it.
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2,000 CASOS PUBLICADOS · ATUALIZADOS REGULARMENTEMercato left a cloud bucket open, spilling 70,000 orders — and stayed quiet
The grocery startup's unprotected storage bucket exposed years of orders; it fixed the leak and raised a $26M Series A without telling customers.
Ler o casoInfo Edge wrote off Bijnis months after 4B — its first net loss in six years
The Indian internet group wrote off its entire $9.3M bet on Bijnis, citing cash burn and buyback liabilities, after writing off 4B Networks.
Ler o casoESPN Plus's UFC 257 stream blacked out for paying fans before the main event
Subscribers who paid $69.99 on top of $59.99 a year missed parts of UFC 257's early main card; ESPN Plus apologized and offered partial refunds.
Ler o casoEndo pulled cellulite treatment Qwo, laid off 90 and booked a $235–250M charge
Nine months after its 'Butt First' campaign, Endo killed Qwo over bruising side effects — 90 jobs gone, $50–60M annual savings, a quarter-billion charge.
Ler o casoEmbracer's $2 billion Saudi deal collapsed — and its acquisition spree stopped dead
The Swedish group's buyout machine ran on a promised $2 billion from Savvy; when the Saudi-backed partner walked in May 2023, the studios paid for it.
Ler o casoEight Sleep's cloud-only Pod3 became a $2,000 'sauna' during the AWS outage
When AWS's US-EAST-1 region failed on October 20, 2025, Eight Sleep's Pod3 covers lost temperature control, tracking and automations — no offline mode existed.
Ler o casoCitizen suspended CZ Smart smartwatch sales after reviewers documented the bugs
The Wear OS watch with IBM Watson and NASA tech shipped laggy, inaccurate and short-lived; Citizen pulled touchscreen models off sale in August.
Ler o casoWondermind investors sue, alleging a promised app and bank partnerships never existed
Five investors say the celebrity-founded mental-health startup, pitched at $95M, never built its app or landed its partnerships; the claims are unproven.
Ler o casoWaterstones' warehouse software upgrade left book orders waiting up to six weeks
A July 2022 switch to Blue Yonder warehouse software created an order backlog for the UK's biggest book chain, stranding new titles and customer orders.
Ler o casoUber took a Zomato stake for exiting India, lost $707M on it in six months, then sold
Uber's 2020 sale of Uber Eats India to Zomato left it holding shares that fell $707M in value in H1 2022, and it moved to sell the whole stake.
Ler o casoPost Holdings' SPAC found no deal in two years and was unwound at a ~$10M loss
Post Holdings Partnering Corp, formed in May 2021 at the SPAC peak, missed its 28 May 2023 deadline and returned its cash to shareholders.
Ler o casoA Philips Hue Bridge Pro firmware update bricked hubs; Signify offered free replacements
A June 2026 firmware update left some Hue Bridge Pro hubs stuck on a red light; Signify said fewer than 100 were hit and promised free replacements.
Ler o casoMission Produce's new ERP left it blind to avocado inventory and added $4.1M of costs
A new ERP system cost Mission Produce visibility of on-hand fruit, so it sold at below-average returns and sourced extra product with little margin.
Ler o casoL'Oréal China's Singles' Day mask deal was undercut by its own coupons; streamers paused
Shoppers who bought a L'Oréal mask in Li Jiaqi's live stream found it cheaper via coupons in L'Oréal's own streams; two top streamers suspended work with it.
Ler o casoJapan-backed JS Foundry filed for bankruptcy 2.5 years after launch with ¥16.1B debt
JS Foundry, set up in December 2022 to run a former Sanyo and Onsemi power-chip plant, filed for bankruptcy after sales fell from ¥10B to ¥2.6B.
Ler o casoJ&J Snack Foods' new ERP system cost an estimated $20M in quarterly revenue
J&J Snack Foods' ERP changeover, timed for its slowest quarter, still disrupted picking, scheduling and production, hitting revenue and margins.
Ler o casoIndian Overseas Bank's new net banking failed for a week; it went back to the old system
IOB moved to an Infosys-subsidiary platform on 24 July 2025, saw nearly a week of disruption and told customers it was going back to the old system.
Ler o casoBelfast's George Best hotel never opened; room investors put in nearly £6M and lost out
Belfast's George Best hotel went into administration in 2020 unopened; a judge allowed its sale, leaving bedroom investors unlikely to recoup anything.
Ler o casoBungie's Destiny 2 patch deleted player progress and forced a 20-hour outage and rollback
A routine January 2023 Destiny 2 patch deleted some players' triumphs, seals and catalysts, so Bungie took the game offline and rolled servers back.
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