100 Famous Incidents

Learn From History's
Worst Outages

Study the most impactful software incidents of the last 15 years. Then practice handling them with Incident Drill's realistic simulations.

2010 Outage (Database)

Foursquare MongoDB Outage

Foursquare

Dive into the Foursquare MongoDB outage of 2010 and discover how to prevent similar database disasters. Train your team …

2010 Security (Cyber-Physical)

Stuxnet Malware

State-sponsored (targets: Iran)

Uncover the Stuxnet attack, the first cyber weapon to cripple industrial systems. Learn from this security incident with …

2011 Outage (Infrastructure)

BlackBerry Service Outage

Research In Motion (RIM)

Learn from the 2011 BlackBerry outage. Explore the root cause, practice incident response, and improve your team's …

2011 Outage (Cloud)

Amazon AWS East Outage

Amazon Web Services

Explore the 2011 Amazon AWS East Outage. Understand the cascade of failures & its impact. Train your team with realistic …

2012 Critical Bug (Finance)

Knight Capital Knightmare

Knight Capital Group

Explore the Knight Capital Knightmare of 2012. Learn how a deployment error cost $440 million and how Incident Drill …

2012 Outage (Cloud)

Amazon AWS Power Outage

Amazon Web Services

Analyze the 2012 Amazon AWS power outage, learn from its cascading failures, and prepare your team for similar incidents …

2012 Outage (Cloud)

Amazon AWS ELB Xmas Eve Outage

Amazon Web Services

Uncover the root cause of the 2012 AWS ELB outage that impacted Netflix on Christmas Eve. Train your team with realistic …

2012 Outage (Cloud)

Azure Leap Year Outage

Microsoft Azure

Explore the 2012 Azure Leap Year Outage and learn how Incident Drill helps your team prepare for and prevent similar …

2012 Bug/Outage (OS)

Linux Leap Second Crash

Various (Linux OS)

Dive deep into the 2012 Linux Leap Second Crash. Understand the root cause and practice preventing similar outages with …

2012 Outage (Cloud)

Netflix Christmas Eve Outage

Netflix (on AWS)

Uncover the root cause of the 2012 Netflix outage on Christmas Eve. Learn how to avoid similar AWS Elastic Load Balancer …

2013 Outage/Overload (Web)

Healthcare.gov Launch Failure

US Government (CMS)

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2013 Bug (Email)

Google 20x Duplicate Emails Bug

Google (Gmail)

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2014 Bug (Consensus)

Kubernetes etcd Memory Corruption

Kubernetes

Uncover the Kubernetes etcd memory corruption incident of 2014. Learn how to prevent similar issues with Incident …

2014 Outage (Cloud)

Google Gmail Outage

Google

Explore the 2014 Google Gmail outage and learn how Incident Drill can help your team prepare for similar cloud …

2014 Security Bug

OpenSSL Heartbleed Vulnerability

OpenSSL (open source)

Explore the OpenSSL Heartbleed vulnerability (CVE-2014-0160) and learn how Incident Drill helps teams prepare for …

2014 Security Bug

Shellshock Bash Bug

GNU Bash (open source)

Explore the Shellshock Bash Bug (2014) and learn how to prevent similar security vulnerabilities. Incident Drill helps …

2014 Security Breach

Sony Pictures Hack

Sony Pictures Entertainment

Simulate the Sony Pictures Entertainment hack of 2014 and improve your team's incident response. Learn from this …

2014 Privacy/Security Issue

Uber God View Data Privacy Incident

Uber

Explore the Uber 'God View' privacy incident of 2014. Learn how to prevent similar data breaches with Incident Drill's …

2015 Outage (Cloud)

AWS DynamoDB Outage

Amazon Web Services

Analyze the 2015 AWS DynamoDB US-East-1 outage. Understand root causes and practice incident response. Join the Incident …

2015 Privacy Bug

Steam 2015 Holiday Glitch

Valve (Steam)

Explore the Steam 2015 Holiday Glitch and learn how to prevent similar privacy bugs. Practice incident response with …

2015 Security (Cyberattack)

Ukraine Power Grid Hack

Ukraine Power Companies

Analyze the 2015 Ukraine cyberattack that crippled the power grid. Incident Drill helps teams practice handling similar …

2015 Engineering/Software Mishap

SpaceX CRS-7 Launch Failure

SpaceX

Analyze the SpaceX CRS-7 launch failure, a critical engineering & software mishap. Train your team with realistic …

2016 Bug (Satellite Systems)

GPS Week Rollover & GLONASS Bug

Global (GPS/GLONASS)

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2016 Security Breach (Crypto)

Bitfinex Crypto Exchange Hack

Bitfinex

Analyze the 2016 Bitfinex hack (119,756 BTC stolen) and train your team to prevent similar breaches with Incident Drill. …

2016 Outage (DDoS)

Dyn DNS DDoS Attack

Dyn Inc. (DNS provider)

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2016 Security Breach (Crypto)

Ethereum DAO Hack

The DAO (Ethereum)

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2016 Consensus Bug

Ethereum Shanghai Consensus Bug

Ethereum

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2016 Security (DDoS botnet)

Mirai Botnet and IoT Worm

Mirai (malware)

Explore the Mirai botnet incident and its impact. Learn how to prepare your team for similar IoT security threats with …

2016 Dependency/Outage

NPM Left-Pad Fiasco

npm (JavaScript ecosystem)

Explore the infamous NPM Left-Pad incident. Learn how a tiny dependency broke the internet and how Incident Drill …

2016 Outage & Data Loss (Cloud CRM)

Salesforce NA14 Outage & Data Loss

Salesforce.com

Dive deep into the 2016 Salesforce NA14 outage and data loss incident. Learn how to prevent similar disasters with …

2016 Security (Ransomware)

SF MUNI Ransomware Attack

San Francisco MUNI

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2017 Outage (Cloud)

Amazon S3 Typo Outage

Amazon Web Services

Explore the 2017 Amazon S3 outage caused by a simple typo. Learn how Incident Drill helps your team prepare for and …

2017 Security Bug

Cloudflare Cloudbleed Leak

Cloudflare

Analyze the 2017 Cloudflare Cloudbleed Leak, a critical security bug. Incident Drill provides training to prevent …

2017 Security Breach

Equifax Data Breach

Equifax

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2017 Outage & Data Loss

GitLab Database Deletion

GitLab.com

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2017 Security (Malware)

NotPetya Destructive Attack

Global (primarily Ukraine)

Simulate the NotPetya destructive attack of 2017 and train your team to respond to similar malware incidents. Learn from …

2017 Security Malware

WannaCry Ransomware Outbreak

Global (Windows systems)

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2017 Security Bug (Crypto)

Parity Multi-Sig Wallet Hacks

Parity (Ethereum)

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2018 Software Design Flaw (Safety)

Boeing 737 MAX MCAS Flaw

Boeing

Analyze the Boeing 737 MAX MCAS flaw that led to two tragic crashes. Learn how to prevent similar incidents with …

2018 Outage (Scalability)

Epic Games Fortnite Outage

Epic Games

Learn from the Epic Games Fortnite outage of 2018. Practice incident response with realistic simulations. Join the …

2018 Outage (Database)

Stack Overflow Outage

Stack Overflow

Explore the 2018 Stack Overflow outage caused by database failover issues. Learn how to prevent similar incidents with …

2018 Security Bug (Crypto)

Bitcoin Inflation Bug

Bitcoin Core

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2018 Supply-chain Attack

ESLint Malicious Package Attack

ESLint / npm

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2018 Security Breach (Supply-chain)

Gentoo Linux GitHub Compromise

Gentoo

Simulate and learn from the 2018 Gentoo GitHub compromise. Understand supply-chain attacks and improve your team's …

2018 Outage (Database)

GitHub Mega Outage

GitHub

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2018 Security (DDoS)

GitHub Memcached DDoS

GitHub

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2018 Outage (Configuration)

GitLab Global Outage

GitLab.com

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2018 Security Bug (Privacy)

Google+ API Bug

Google (Google+)

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2018 Security (Hardware Bug)

Intel CPU Meltdown Bug

Intel/CPU industry

Explore the Intel Meltdown CPU bug of 2018. Understand the security vulnerability, its impact, and how to prevent …

2018 Security (DNS hijack)

MyEtherWallet DNS Hijack

MyEtherWallet

Simulate the MyEtherWallet DNS Hijack incident and train your team to prevent similar attacks. Practice incident …

2018 Bug (OS Update)

RHEL 7 Patch Reboot Bug

Red Hat

Explore the Red Hat RHEL 7 kernel update bug that caused server hangs on reboot. Learn how Incident Drill helps teams …

2018 Outage (Payments)

Visa Europe Data Center Outage

Visa

Explore the 2018 Visa Europe data center outage. Learn how a hardware failure crippled payment processing and how …

2018 Outage (Telecom)

Seattle 911 Outage

CenturyLink / West Safety

Learn from the 2018 CenturyLink 911 outage. Incident Drill helps teams practice responding to similar telecom failures. …

2019 Outage (Software Bug)

Cloudflare Regex WAF Outage

Cloudflare

Learn from the Cloudflare Regex WAF outage of 2019. Practice incident response with realistic simulations. Join the …

2019 Bug (SDK)

Vulkan SDK Solar Eclipse Bug

LunarG (Vulkan)

Explore the infamous Vulkan SDK Solar Eclipse Bug of 2019 and learn how Incident Drill helps your team prepare for …

2019 Bug (DoS)

Kubernetes API Server DoS

Kubernetes (open source)

Learn from the 2019 Kubernetes API Server DoS incident. Practice incident response and prevent future outages with …

2019 Outage (Network)

Google Cloud Network Outage

Google Cloud

Analyze the 2019 Google Cloud Network Outage. Understand the root cause, impact, and how to prevent similar incidents …

2019 Outage (Data Loss)

Google Cloud Zone Loss

Google Cloud

Dive deep into the 2019 Google Cloud Zone Loss. Understand the root cause, impact, and lessons learned. Train your team …

2019 Security Breach

Capital One Cloud Breach

Capital One

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2019 Outage (CI/CD)

cloud.gov Rogue Deploy

cloud.gov (18F)

Learn from the cloud.gov Rogue Deploy incident of 2019. Practice incident response and build resilient systems with …

2019 Security Breach

Docker Hub Database Breach

Docker

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2019 Outage (Cloud/Auth)

Duo Security Outage

Duo (Cisco)

Analyze the 2019 Duo Security outage & authentication cascade failure. Train your team to prevent similar cloud & auth …

2019 Outage (Config)

Facebook Family Outage

Facebook Inc.

Analyze the 2019 Facebook outage & learn how to prevent similar incidents. Incident Drill simulates real-world scenarios …

2019 Outage (Certificate)

Mozilla Firefox Add-on Outage

Mozilla

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2019 Outage (Cloud)

Oracle Cloud Auth Failure

Oracle Cloud

Analyze the 2019 Oracle Cloud authentication outage. Understand the root cause and learn how to prevent similar …

2020 Bug/Outage (Endpoint Security)

CrowdStrike False Update Incident

CrowdStrike

Explore the 2020 CrowdStrike False Update incident & its impact. Incident Drill lets you simulate similar scenarios to …

2020 Outage (CI/CD)

Github Actions Outage

GitHub

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2020 Algorithmic Bug

Twitter Image Crop Bias Bug

Twitter

Learn from Twitter's 2020 Image Crop Bias incident. Use Incident Drill to train your team to prevent algorithmic bias …

2020 Security (CA incident)

Let's Encrypt CAA Bug

Let's Encrypt

Explore the Let's Encrypt CAA bug of 2020 & its impact. Incident Drill helps teams train for and prevent similar …

2020 Outage (Cloud)

Amazon Kinesis Outage

Amazon Web Services

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2020 Outage (Cloud)

Google Global Auth Outage

Google

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2020 Outage (Cloud)

IBM Cloud Outage

IBM Cloud

Analyze the 2020 IBM Cloud outage. Understand the root cause (network misconfiguration) and prevent similar incidents …

2020 Outage (Cloud Auth)

Microsoft Azure Authentication Outage

Microsoft Azure

Analyze the root cause of the 2020 Azure AD outage. Practice incident response with realistic simulations. Join the …

2020 Outage (Cloud)

Microsoft Teams 365 Outage

Microsoft

Learn from Microsoft's 2020 Teams outage caused by an expired TLS certificate. Practice incident response with Incident …

2020 Outage (Security)

Mozilla Let's Encrypt Certificate Goof

Mozilla

Analyze the Mozilla Let's Encrypt certificate revocation incident of 2020. Learn how to prevent similar security outages …

2020 Security Breach

Peach Payments Logging Incident

Peach Payments (South Africa)

Analyze the Peach Payments security breach (2020) where leaked API keys led to card data theft. Train your team with …

2020 Outage (Scaling)

Robinhood Outage

Robinhood

Explore the Robinhood outage of 2020 and how Incident Drill helps engineering teams prepare for and prevent similar …

2020 Bug (ERP)

SAP Code Injection Error

SAP

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2020 Security Breach

SolarWinds Supply-Chain Attack

SolarWinds Orion

Simulate and learn from the SolarWinds Orion supply-chain attack. Train your team to defend against sophisticated …

2020 Security (BGP/DNS)

TikTok DNS Hijack

TikTok (Cloudflare)

Learn from the 2020 TikTok DNS Hijack. Incident Drill provides realistic simulations to train your team to handle BGP …

2021 Outage (CDN/DNS)

Akamai DNS Outage

Akamai

Analyze the 2021 Akamai DNS outage and train your team to prevent similar incidents. Incident Drill provides realistic …

2021 Outage (Cloud)

AWS us-east-1 Outage

Amazon Web Services

Uncover the root cause of the 2021 AWS us-east-1 outage and learn how to prevent similar incidents with Incident Drill. …

2021 Outage (Networking)

Facebook Global Outage

Facebook/Meta

Explore the 2021 Facebook outage & network failure. Train your team to handle similar incidents with Incident Drill's …

2021 Outage (Cloud/CDN)

Fastly Global CDN Outage

Fastly

Explore the 2021 Fastly CDN outage and learn how to prevent similar incidents. Incident Drill provides hands-on training …

2021 Security Bug

Apache Log4j Log4Shell

Apache Log4j (open source)

Analyze the Log4Shell incident (CVE-2021-44228) and train your team with realistic simulations. Understand …

2021 Outage (Physical Disaster)

OVH Strasbourg Data Center Fire

OVH

Analyze the 2021 OVH Strasbourg data center fire and prepare your team for similar disasters. Practice incident response …

2021 Bug (Package Manager)

Raspberry Pi OS apt-get Bug

Raspberry Pi (Debian)

Explore the Raspberry Pi OS apt-get bug (2021) and learn how Incident Drill helps teams prepare for similar package …

2021 Outage (Cloud)

Slack New Year Outage

Slack

Learn from Slack's 2021 New Year Outage. Incident Drill helps your team prepare for similar incidents. Join the …

2022 Outage (Cloud)

Google Cloud Filestore Throttle

Google Cloud

Learn from the 2022 Google Cloud Filestore outage. Practice responding to similar incidents with Incident Drill. Join …

2022 Outage & Data Deletion

Atlassian Cloud Outage

Atlassian

Analyze the Atlassian Cloud Outage of 2022 and learn how to prevent similar incidents. Train your team with Incident …

2022 Security Breach

CircleCI Token Breach

CircleCI

Learn from the 2022 CircleCI security breach. Practice incident response with realistic simulations on Incident Drill. …

2022 Outage (Network)

Cloudflare Global Outage

Cloudflare

Simulate the Cloudflare 2022 global outage and train your team to handle similar incidents. Incident Drill provides …

2022 Outage (Cloud/Kubernetes)

Datadog Cilium Network Outage

Datadog

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2022 Outage (Cloud)

Discord Partial Outage

Discord

Learn from Discord's 2022 outage caused by a Google Cloud Redis migration. Practice handling similar incidents with …

2022 Security Breach

Okta Support System Breach

Okta

Analyze the 2022 Okta Support System Breach. Learn how LAPSUS$ gained access and practice preventing similar incidents …

2022 Security Issue

Travis CI Secrets Leak

Travis CI

Analyze the 2022 Travis CI secrets leak incident and learn how to prevent similar vulnerabilities. Practice incident …

2022 Bug (AI system)

Meta AI Benchmark Bug

Meta

Dive deep into the Meta AI Benchmark Bug of 2022. Understand the impact, learn from the mistakes, and train your team …

2022 Security Breach

Uber Security Breach

Uber

Learn from the Uber Security Breach (2022) where an 18-year-old hacker compromised their systems. Practice incident …

2023 Outage (Cloud)

Heroku Database Outage

Heroku (Salesforce)

Learn from the Heroku 2023 database outage caused by an integer overflow. Incident Drill helps teams prepare for similar …

2023 Bug & Data Exposure

OpenAI ChatGPT Data Leak

OpenAI

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