An anonymous source contacted a German newspaper with a short message: interested in data? What followed was the largest leak of financial documents the world had ever seen, eleven and a half million files from a single law firm in Panama.

A chief executive bought a six-thousand-dollar shower curtain for his Manhattan apartment, and the company paid for the apartment. Tyco's shareholders didn't know they were furnishing it.

WorldCom disguised eleven billion dollars in ordinary expenses as long-term investment, until its own internal auditor pursued the discrepancy against her bosses' wishes.

Parmalat kept a fictional four-billion-dollar bank account on its books for years, backed by a crudely forged document no one checked directly with the bank until it was too late.

1MDB was supposed to develop Malaysia's economy. Billions of it instead funded real estate, jewelry, and reportedly a Hollywood film about financial fraud.

Volkswagen's defeat device software could recognize an emissions test in progress and change how the engine behaved, only during the test. Eleven million vehicles carried it.

LIBOR set the cost of over three hundred trillion dollars in financial contracts worldwide, calculated from bank self-reports that traders were quietly manipulating for years.

Nick Leeson controlled both the trading and the settlement books in Barings' Singapore office. Hidden losses in one secret account eventually destroyed the bank.

FTX quietly funneled customer deposits into a sister trading firm. When a bank run hit in November 2022, an eight-billion-dollar hole opened in ten days.

Theranos promised to run hundreds of tests from a finger-prick of blood. It couldn't, and the gap between the claim and the technology took years, and a criminal trial, to fully surface.