| A customer service representative was terminated, to "get even" during the notice period he created several fake sales orders with delivery addresses for his family members. |
| May include financial background check performed on potential candidates for positions that perform cash deposits and execute bank wire transactions and other privileged activities. |
| A snow storms knocks out power to the data center and all of the day's transactions are deleted. |
| A group of high school seniors broke into the offices of a game development company searching for the newest game player. They did extensive damage to the facility |
| New customer orders are rejected by the system because they don't have a valid customer ID. These orders are simply never processed. |
| In an attempt to empower employees and create an efficient process, Uptons allowed their sales associates to process sales returns at any register without specific approval from a manager. As a result, many sales associates processed invalid retuns, providing cash to "customers" without receiving goods back in return. |
| Employee hours were entered as 40 per day rather than 40 per week. |
| The logistics manager gets into the accounting system and finds out he received a lower raise than the other managers. |
| A programmer at Acme Inc. modified the inventory ordering system so it would double the order any time Acme Inc. submitted a purchase order to their parts supplier, which is a company owned by the programmer's cousin. |