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£10m blunder on electronic trading system
News The German-based employee's blunder caused panic across City trading floors as screens flashed the news that that someone wanted to sell 130,000 German bond futures contracts worth £11.5bn -- the largest single trade in German futures.
[November 19, 1998, 15:16]
And another - IKEA in security blunder
News Swedish furniture firm IKEA experienced a security blunder at its online store this week, exposing the private details of hundreds of customers online. A Web server configuration error left a database file containing the customer information...
[September 7, 2000, 10:24]
Council's security blunder exposes card details
News A security blunder at Newcastle City Council has exposed the credit and debit card details of up to 54,000 people online. The breach was discovered on 19 July after the council hired an independent security expert to try and crack its systems.
[July 30, 2007, 9:00]
Word blunder reveals government terror doubts
News Fantuzzi said it is all the more incredible that this latest blunder shows the government didn't learn from the red faces it suffered over the infamous dodgy dossier. The UK government is once again in trouble over document management, with an...
[September 17, 2005, 11:05]
Linux blunder Down Under could land MPAA in court
News What seems to be an embarrassing blunder by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) in its hunt for online pirates has prompted Linux Australia to contact its legal representatives and warn of a possible breach of Australian law.
[September 20, 2004, 9:40]
Linux blunder Down Under could land MPAA in court
Talkback just goes to show how "intelligent" these MPAA monkeys are.you have a file that has the same name as a movie, take it down or else! i for one would like to see the mpaa eat it's own words.bash:#> rm /mpaa
[September 21, 2004, 15:40]
Linux blunder Down Under could land MPAA in court
Talkback /me thinks there's a new source for project/product names .
[September 21, 2004, 16:19]
Word blunder reveals government terror doubts
Talkback 40 years on and Plain Text e-mail still hasn't been beat. As for digital signing and all. That won't stop "hidden text" from arriving where it shouldn't. That has more to do with the choice of word processing product and how you go about it.
[September 19, 2005, 21:50]
Pricing blunder hits Apple online
Talkback You will find that the problems with Apple are not confined to the Olympus E1- I ordered a Nikon 5200 from the same site online, for £89.95, on 29th December and my order was cancelled on 4th January at 08.43hrs.
[January 5, 2006, 11:07]
Pricing blunder hits Apple online
Talkback Hello, I am actually one of the many customers who bought this camera in good faith. I have sought legal advice and shall be taking legal action against Apple store UK for ''loss of bargain''. I am more than happy for you to cover the progress of...
[January 5, 2006, 9:48]
Pricing blunder hits Apple online
Talkback Hello, I am actually one of the many customers who bought this camera in good faith. I have sought legal advice and shall be taking legal action against Apple store UK for ''loss of bargain''. I am more than happy for you to cover the progress of...
[January 5, 2006, 9:53]
Pricing blunder hits Apple online
Talkback Just to add, money has also been taken from a number of the customers who have ordered. Which has yet to be refunded by Apple. Inaddition Apple claims the reason for not being able to fulfil there contract to supply the cameras is not due to a...
[January 5, 2006, 13:05]
Pricing blunder hits Apple online
Talkback How long does it take apple to change a price field 8am until 6pm. Or if it was aunavailable how about stockcontrol stock = stock - 1 thats how you do it! Why keep churning out confirmations all day? Perhaps this is just a publicity stunt to drive...
[January 5, 2006, 17:07]
Linux blunder Down Under could land MPAA in court
Talkback You'd think these mooks would download the file as EVIDENCE of the infringements. Instead of which, they just go by stupid keyword matches without confirming them. It happened here to someone who was distributing private (skating) videos.
[September 21, 2004, 9:19]
Pricing blunder hits Apple online
News Apple appears to have become the latest firm to offer goods online at the wrong price and subsequently refuse to honour the sales. A number of customers shopping for a great bargain in the January sales thought they had found just that when they...
[January 5, 2006, 8:20]
Y2K bug blamed for £4m banking blunder
News The millennium bug is suspected to have caused a German bank to accidentally issue a computer-banking customer with an account inflated by more than £4m. This lucky businessman's account not only showed this surprising balance figure, but also...
[January 4, 2000, 9:57]
Email blunder leaves councillor in tight spot
News A Conservative councillor resigned from the party on Thursday after emails that he sent containing photographs of him wearing a suspender belt, tights, and no underwear were forwarded to his colleagues.
[August 8, 2003, 10:40]
MS ruling leaked through security blunder
News A security specialist is highly critical of apparent procedural inadequacies which saw the long-awaited judgment in the Microsoft anti-trust case posted online almost two hours before its official release.
[November 5, 2002, 8:25]
Egg admits another personal data blunder
News The revelation comes a day after it was discovered that an Egg customer's bank account was illegally accessed by another Egg user. Two weeks ago Egg admitted it had sent a customer an unencrypted email containing credit card details but described...
[December 1, 1999, 16:55]
Blunder with 60.5m records??
Talkback I am truly fearful of what the Govt is going to do with 57 separate pieces of information on the 60.5+m people living in the UK. Can you imagine the nightmare of a few DVD's of all that information in the wrong hands.
[November 21, 2007, 18:14]
