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by stavrus 4400 days ago
A similar case happened with the Eve Online cluster (~50,000 concurrent users) a couple of years ago. A programmer, who for some reason had access to the live cluster, confused his local development instance with that of the live cluster and issued a shutdown. Luckily they were able to avert the incoming disaster in time (it was a timed shutdown), but jokes are still made about the mistake.

http://oldforums.eveonline.com/?a=topic&threadID=1232785