Chile's San José mine collapsed despite known safety lapses — 33 men survived 69 days
San Esteban's under-inspected mine caved in and trapped 33 men for 69 days; the state-funded rescue cost $10–20M, and no one was convicted.
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2,000 CASOS PUBLICADOS · ATUALIZADOS REGULARMENTEToshiba let activists in to survive 2017, then paid ¥2 trillion to buy them all out
A 2017 emergency share sale to foreign hedge funds kept Toshiba listed, but the boardroom war it caused ended in a ¥2 trillion buyout to go private.
Ler o casoCareem's rapid growth left 14 million users' data exposed to hackers
Hackers took names, emails, phones and trip data of ~14 million Careem riders and drivers in January 2018. Careem disclosed the breach three months later.
Ler o casoWendy's hired a manicurist for a hamburger ad — she became a cultural phenomenon
Wendy's ad agency cast 80-year-old manicurist Clara Peller for a commercial. Her line 'Where's the beef?' became a national catchphrase and boosted sales 31%.
Ler o casoGozyuger cut its heroine from a finished episode after underage drinking
Underage drinking got Imamori Maya dropped and removed from Gozyuger — Toei and TV Asahi rewrote a finished episode around her absence.
Ler o casoBluesmart built a suitcase around a battery airlines then forbade
A smart-luggage startup sealed the battery inside the case. When airlines banned non-removable lithium cells, the bags could not fly — and nor could the firm.
Ler o casoHaeckel fudged his embryo drawings — and textbooks copied them for a century
In 1868 a German biologist drew embryos of different species more alike than they are — critics knew by the 1870s, yet the fakes ran in textbooks until 1997.
Ler o casoSaudi flour giant First Mills fined SAR 10M for barring its distributor from rivals
The privatized state mill required a distributor not to sell rivals' products and was fined SAR 10M eight days before its stock-market debut.
Ler o casoFarglory's Taipei Dome added commercial space, cut fire safety — and sat idle for 5 years
Farglory packed a hotel, mall, and theater into the Taipei Dome without fire safety — the city halted construction for 5 years, and the cost jumped to NT$40B.
Ler o casoCapcom Vancouver's Dead Rising 4 sold half as expected — so Capcom closed the studio
Capcom's Vancouver studio bet on Dead Rising 4. It sold less than 1M copies against a 2M target. Capcom wrote off ¥4.5B and shut the studio down.
Ler o casoA ring propped up eight Korean stocks with CFD leverage — then they all crashed together
Ra Deok-yeon's club used SG Securities' CFD desk to hide who owned eight mid-cap stocks; when the leverage broke, all eight hit limit-down within days.
Ler o casoArgentina's top agency sold to Lowe — the founders walked, the legend dissolved
Agulla & Baccetti was named the best agency in Iberoamérica. The founders sold control to Lowe; the stars left, the name was retired, and the legend dissolved.
Ler o casoOne missing concurrency limit took Bluesky down for half its users for eight hours
A new internal client sent 20,000-URI batches to the one RPC without bounded concurrency; port exhaustion, a logging storm, and OOM crashes did the rest.
Ler o casoBDNI's Rp47.3tn state debt was closed with a 2004 release letter
BDNI lent 76% of its Rp16.9tn book to its owner's group, ~50x the legal limit; a 2004 release letter closed Rp28.4tn of claims, Rp4tn uncollected in 2022.
Ler o casoA fake 'Fuse Lending' ran a lending site on GCash's old brand name — SEC shut it
An unlicensed lender squatted on the name GCash's lending arm had vacated in January 2025; the SEC's July 31 cease order shut the operation.
Ler o casoNetflix split its DVD service into Qwikster and lost 800,000 subscribers in a quarter
In 2011, Netflix announced it would split DVD rentals into a new brand called Qwikster, triggering a backlash that cost 800,000 subscribers.
Ler o casoStitch Fix's CEO lasted 17 months — her Freestyle strategy cost the company its growth
Stitch Fix hired Elizabeth Spaulding to lead a turnaround. Seventeen months later, 20% of salaried staff were cut and she was out.
Ler o casoAmazon's $1,599 home robot shipped a few hundred — Wired: 'a robot without a cause'
Amazon launched Astro at $1,599 in September 2021. Six months later Bloomberg reported only a few hundred shipped. Reviewers found no compelling use case.
Ler o casoPercival Lowell staked his observatory on Martian canals — they were an optical illusion
A Boston millionaire built an observatory to prove Mars was crossed by irrigation canals; the lines were an optical illusion his own staff could not see.
Ler o casoNike severed 27-year China distributor ties for DTC — Topsports stock fell 25% in a day
Nike told Topsports and Pou Sheng to stop selling Nike online by Jan 2027 — clearing thousands of Chinese dealers in one day for a DTC-only future.
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