Risk: Informational
All around the world, users of Google were greeted with a message warning that "this site may harm your computer".
The same text was pasted next to every search result. In effect, Google was warning users that the entire internet was a risk and shouldn't be touched.
Panic spread as the global web community told each other about this apparent breakdown.
Google eventually fixed the problem, explaining that an update of a list of malicious sites somehow ended up including every web address, instead of one specific URL. This proved to be an example of a simple mistake being allowed to rage out of control...