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Theater Chains Killed The Interview First — Sony Just Got Blamed for It
Sony Pictures
Capital One disclosed its 106-million-record breach in ten days, and the $80 million fine was for something older
Capital One
Colonial Pipeline Paid $4.4M the Same Day It Was Hacked — and Still Sat Dark for Six Days
Colonial Pipeline
Norsk Hydro Livestreamed Its Own Ransomware Attack Instead of Paying the Bitcoin Ransom
Norsk Hydro
Maersk Reinstalled 45,000 PCs in Ten Days After NotPetya — and Then Never Trued Up the Bill
Maersk
Uber's security chief got probation for hiding the 2016 breach, and the CEO the judge called just as culpable walked
Uber
A security blogger broke Target's 2013 breach a day before Target did, and the slow recovery cost the CEO his job
Target
Equifax found the breach on July 29, 2017 and told the public 40 days later
Equifax
GE Took a $6.2 Billion Insurance Hit in 2018 — but Its Books Were Never Wrong
General Electric
Steinhoff's Furniture Empire Delisted at 2 South African Cents a Share in 2023
Steinhoff
Luckin Coffee Faked $300M in Sales, Got Delisted, and Passed Starbucks in China Three Years Later
Luckin Coffee
Hertz sued four ex-executives for $70M in 2019 — five years after it first flagged the accounting
Hertz
Toshiba's $1.2 Billion Profit Fraud Left a $3 Billion Cushion — Then Westinghouse Blew Through It
Toshiba
Waste Management restated $1.43 billion in fake profits — then got swallowed by a rival a third its size
Waste Management
Xerox Settled Its SEC Fraud Case for $3 Billion — Then Restated $6.4 Billion
Xerox
Intel's exclusivity checks were 76% of Dell's operating income the quarter before it embraced AMD
Dell
Southwest's Pilots Told It the Bomb Was Ticking. It Went Off a Month Later.
Southwest
CrowdStrike Fixed the Bug in 78 Minutes. The Reputation Took Longer—and Cost More.
CrowdStrike
Microsoft's Breakup Order Died When the Judge Called Gates 'Napoleonic' to Reporters
Microsoft
Activision Paid $107 Million to Three Different Regulators. None of Them Agreed on What Went Wrong.
Activision Blizzard
Apple's Repair 'Reversal' Was a String of Minimum Concessions, Each Timed to Outside Pressure
Apple
The FBI Paid $900,000 to Crack an iPhone — and Handed Apple Its Central Legal Argument
Apple
Two Courts Called Google a Monopolist. The Remedy Was a Six-Year Promise.
Alphabet (Google)
Merck Paid $5.8 Billion for Vioxx and Admitted Almost Nothing. That Was the Plan.
Merck
WBD Paid Tens of Billions for HBO, Then Spent Two Years Hiding the Name on the Door.
Warner Bros Discovery
DuPont Kept the Science and Spun Off the Bill
DuPont
A $250M Fund Took Three Seats on Exxon's Board. The Real Story Is Who Handed It the Votes.
ExxonMobil
Switzerland Kept UBS Alive Through 2008 — a Rescue Planned Since March
UBS
The Government Set Bear Stearns' $2 Price; JPMorgan's Legal Bill Ran Past $19 Billion
JPMorgan Chase
Purdue's Playbook: Settle Small, Withdraw $11 Billion, Buy Permanent Immunity
Purdue Pharma
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