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The biggest software failures in recent history including ransomware attacks, IT outages and data leakages that have affected some of the biggest companies and millions of customers around the world. Research and select one such disatser and share the details on this forum
There had been a Pikachu virus that would steal personal information and leave your account in heavy debt. It is estimated that the pikachu virus deals $18,000 or 601,000 baht of damage. This virus has been able to trick about 1 million people. This virus was a catastrophe.
In 2016, it was found that a computer system in a hospital had an error since 2009. It has been giving the wrong doses of drugs to customers. As a result, it had many patients suffered strokes and heart attacks since they were told they were at low risks, while others suffered from unnecessary medication.
In 2004, there is a computer virus called the Mydoom Virus. This virus damaged cost about 38 billion dollars. This virus spread emails and addresses.
Google had shocked everyone in 2018 revealing CPUs vulnerabilities — Meltdown and Spectre, which can access private and sensitive data of other programs.
In february 2020 more than 100 fights to and from london were disrupt during sunday 16 february. It was a technical issue affecting departure boards and check in systems.
In 2013, around the peak of their 1 billion member milestone, Facebook was enormous back then. But some simple and ordinary bugs can ruin and endanger a 140 billion dollar company as of right now. This bug had occured when the prestigious company had just reached their goal of a billion followers. This ‘supposed’ software glitch had primarily attacked about 6 million users on the website forcing them to reveal their contact information. Many sources and even Facebook themselves had claimed,”It’s likely that anyone who saw this is not a stranger to you,” the company said in a notification. Facebook also assured that “all of us at Facebook take this issue very personally” and that the company had taken steps to prevent future breaches — though it hastened to add that “no company can ensure 100 percent prevention of bugs.”(Ivanova, 2018)
A Facebook user’s ability to see or load photos from the newsfeed has been disabled as of the summer of 2019. But it wasn’t only Facebook that was at fault in this case. There were also issues with several of its other apps. Unfortunate outages occurred on Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger. Instastories could not be seen nor could messages or media files be sent to or received by users. Several people were enraged by the glitch, which ranked high on Twitter’s complaints list.
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