Juan Pablo Davila, working for the Chilean government-owned Codelco Company, accidentally types "buy" when he means to type "sell" while trading commodities on his computer. After realizing his mistake, Davila tries to rectify it with a frenzy of buying and selling, ultimately losing approximately 0.5 percent of the country's gross national product. His name has since entered the language: "Davilar," meaning "to screw up royally."
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,32916-3,00.html?tw=wn_story_page_next2
Billions of pounds was wiped off the value of the UK's top 100 companies on Monday night after a banker reportedly keyed in an extra nought on a planned £30m sell order. May 2001
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1121662
"It's a nightmare," laments a WorldCom sales representative who asked not to be identified. Typically, the representative estimates, clients who spend at least $25,000 a month are overbilled an estimated 75% of the time.
http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,3959,818894,00.asp
AN UPGRADE to software at the Halifax bank caused an embarrassing security leak in its Sharexpress online share trading system last week, resulting in the service being suspended. December 1999
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m0COW/1999_Dec_2/58326142/p1/article.jhtml
A SOFTWARE error at Aberdeen City Council resulted in a total of [pounds sterling]4m being withdrawn from 32,000 council taxpayers' bank accounts on Christmas Eve-more than a week early. January 2002.
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m0COW/2002_Jan_10/82105068/p1/article.jhtml
Thursday May 15, 2003. Up to 10 million workers will have to make top-up payments of around £1,500 if they wish to receive their minimum state pension of £77.45 a week, it was reported today. According to the Daily Telegraph, a problem with the Inland Revenue's computer system between 1997 and 2001 has meant that almost a third of all workers, mostly those on low incomes, were not issued with reminders about the need to make up their national insurance contributions in order to receive their pensions.
http://money.guardian.co.uk/news_/story/0,1456,956572,00.html
Tuesday November 25, 2003. Tens of thousands of single parents are facing chronic delays in support payments because of the latest problems to hit a new government computer system.
http://society.guardian.co.uk/children/story/0,1074,1092798,00.html
US computer giant Microsoft says it will meet Nedcor this week to discuss how software programmes to which it holds the copyright were sold with 1 400 Nedcor computers to an East London computer firm. Mr Van Straaten revealed last week that the computers contained confidential banking information of thousands of Nedcor clients and other bank documents. February 2002
http://www.theherald.co.za/herald/2002/02/04/news/ms.htm
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