IconoclasT wrote:

Oops!

A Taiwan stock trader mistakenly bought $251 million worth of shares with a misstroke of her computer keyboard, meaning her company is looking at a paper loss of more than $12 million and she is looking for a new job.

These stories occasionally come out, but I think the truth ends up being far more complicated. Someone did something wrong, someone got caught, a scapegoat/cute explanation was found, etc. No citations for that assertion, though.

RE: Bad keystroke leads to $251 million stock buy