Just a reminder that stories like these are regularly accumulated and curated by the ACM's Committee on Computers and Public Policy, known as the RISKS Digest. In the pre-web days you might have remembered this as Usenet's comp.risks.

Peter G. Neumann has been moderating this publication online for almost 30 years now. Always interesting reading.

RISKS Digest: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISKS_Digest

Current Issue and Archives: http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/

1994 Book: http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Related-Risks-Peter-G-Neumann...