Archive · 14 incidents in this index
Incidents
Every failure we have analyzed, newest first. Each entry links to a full deep-dive with timeline, five-whys, contributing factors, blast radius, and sources.
- 2025-10-20AWS DynamoDB race condition cascades across us-east-1 for 15h 23m.SEV1softwaredesignemergent
- 2024-07-19A Falcon sensor channel-file update dereferenced an uninitialized pointer inside the Windows kernel.SEV1softwareprocessdesign
- 2024-06-06Thermal shielding design assumed shorter burns than ISS rendezvous required.SEV2designhardwareprocess
- 2024-03-29Patient social engineering placed malicious code in a core compression library used by SSH.SEV1externalhumanprocess
- 2023-12-26Two undersea cables cut within 22 hours; investigators could not distinguish sabotage from anchor drag.SEV2hardwareexternal
- 2023-03-10Interest-rate risk was managed assuming retail-paced deposit outflows; deposits left at Slack speed.SEV1designprocessemergent
- 2022-07-08A maintenance-window policy change withdrew routes nationwide; 911 services went down with it.SEV1configdesignprocess
- 2021-10-04A BGP withdrawal from a routine audit command removed the DNS servers that served the auth tokens.SEV1configdesignemergent
- 2020-08-30A flowspec rule intended to block one customer propagated, matching traffic across the entire backbone.SEV1configdesign
- 2012-08-01A retired flag was reused for new logic; one of eight deployment servers still had the old code.SEV1configprocesshuman
- 2011-03-11Seawall design anchored on a historical record shorter than the geological record of the region.SEV1hardwaredesignprocess
- 2010-05-06A large futures order triggered a chain of HFT liquidity withdrawals; the market lost 9% in minutes.SEV1emergentdesign
- 1987-06-03A hardware interlock was removed and replaced with software that had a race condition in setup mode.SEV1softwaredesignhuman
- 1977-03-27Two 747s collided on the runway at Los Rodeos. The crew was senior; the first officer hesitated to correct.SEV1humanprocessemergent