A 2011 storage bug emptied Gmail inboxes; only offline tape backups brought them back
A storage software update hit every copy of some Gmail mailboxes at once in February 2011 — only offline tape backups brought the mail back.
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2,000 CASOS PUBLICADOS · ATUALIZADOS REGULARMENTEChina's largest car dealer booked its first loss since listing
Zhongsheng, No.1 dealer by revenue, was profitable every listed year until FY2025: ¥164.4B of sales, a ¥1.673B loss, and ¥3.174B of gross loss on cars.
Ler o casoAnthropic settled a $1.5B copyright lawsuit — the price of training AI on pirated books
Anthropic downloaded 500,000 copyrighted books from pirate sites to train its AI, then paid $3,000 per work to settle
Ler o casoBMW's MINI caused a $530M-view PR crisis over a tub of ice cream in Shanghai
A video of MINI staff refusing ice cream to Chinese visitors while giving it to a Westerner sparked a firestorm that 530 million people watched on Weibo
Ler o casoHomejoy grew on $19 cleanings and died on contractor lawsuits
The Y Combinator cleaning startup raised $40M and expanded to 31 cities; four worker-classification lawsuits and a failed Series C ended it on 31 July 2015.
Ler o casoKawakin dampers met national rules, failed contracts — so staff rewrote the test data
Five days after KYB's damper scandal, Kawakin checked itself and found its own: dampers in 93 buildings missed customer specs, test data rewritten to pass.
Ler o casoTilburg University social psychologist Diederik Stapel faked data; 58 papers retracted
Diederik Stapel was a star of social psychology who won awards for elegant studies. In 2011 he was exposed for fabricating data; 58 papers were retracted.
Ler o casoJulien Macdonald dressed Beyoncé and went to Givenchy — his label was liquidated in 2023
The Welsh designer's company entered creditors' voluntary liquidation in July 2023 after COVID revenue losses and the collapse of Debenhams.
Ler o casoAsia Pacific Telecom chose CDMA2000 — and became the loneliest network in Taiwan
APT paid NT$10.57B for a CDMA2000 3G license, then its parent embezzled NT$32B, and Foxconn couldn't fix it. Far EasTone absorbed it in 2023.
Ler o casoBitfinex's 119,754-bitcoin hack ended with its launderers in prison
A 2016 breach drained nearly 120,000 bitcoin from Bitfinex. Six years later the DOJ made its largest-ever seizure; in 2024 the laundering couple was sentenced.
Ler o casoChina Aviation Oil — $550M in unauthorized oil trades, the CEO went to jail
A Singapore-listed Chinese oil company lost $550M on derivatives. The CEO was prosecuted. It was Singapore's biggest financial scandal since Barings.
Ler o casoAmul's 'real milk' ads never named HUL — courts still froze them for three summers
Amul campaigned that rivals' frozen desserts used vanaspati oil, not milk. HUL sued without being named — and won injunctions, then a court-ordered edit.
Ler o casoA variable shadowing bug in Linear skipped a permission filter, exposing private team data
Linear's access-control optimization had a variable shadowing bug that let workspace members see private team data for ~1 hour.
Ler o casoWells Fargo's servicing failures cost $3.7B — the CFPB's largest-ever penalty
From 2011 to 2022 Wells Fargo misapplied auto payments, denied mortgage modifications and froze a million accounts — 16 million customers in a $3.7B settlement.
Ler o casoToridoll took a flat 1.1% 'system fee' off 37 food suppliers' invoices for two years
Marugame Seimen's parent skimmed 1.1% off every food-supplier invoice as a 'system usage fee' — ¥147 million in 17 months.
Ler o casoPerfect Diary went from $16B to $378M — the D2C bubble that burst
China's hottest beauty startup spent 68% of revenue on marketing, lost ¥6.5B in five years, and saw 97% of its market cap evaporate
Ler o casoNasty Gal grew 11,200% in three years, then filed for bankruptcy in ten
Sophia Amoruso built a $24M fashion brand from eBay vintage. A pregnancy-discrimination lawsuit, toxic culture claims and Chapter 11 followed. Boohoo bought it.
Ler o casoTerreStar launched the largest commercial satellite ever, went bankrupt 15 months later
TerreStar-1 was the largest commercial telecom satellite ever built. Fifteen months after launch, its hybrid satellite-cellular network filed for Chapter 11.
Ler o casoBrigham and Women's Hospital paid $10M over Harvard lab's fabricated heart-muscle data
Piero Anversa's lab drew $42M in NIH funding on a finding nobody else could replicate; Harvard requested 31 retractions and the hospital paid $10M to settle.
Ler o casoFerragni's pandoro scandal outlived the news cycle — her stores paid for it
Fenice Retail, the Milan and Rome shops selling Chiara Ferragni's brand, lost €1.2M over two years and was put into liquidation in June 2025.
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