| AT&T | Power outage in New York City | 1991 |
| Bernard Madoff | Ponzi scheme with investors | 2009 |
| Dow Chemical Company | Developing napalm during Vietnam | 1968 |
| Jack in the Box | E-coli deaths resulting from contaminated meat | 1993 |
| JetBlue Airways | Grounding of flights for six days due to ice storm at JFK | 2007 |
| Toyota | Recall of automobiles | 2010 |
| Exxon | Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska's Prince William Sound that caused irreparable environmental damage. | 1989 |
| New York Times | False information about ACORN | 2010 |
| Domino's Pizza | Employees contaminating pizza in YouTube video | 2009 |
| Starbucks | Employees charged 9/11 rescue workers for water | 2001 |
| Johnson & Johnson | Cyanide poisoning in Tylenol Extra-Strength capsules killed 7 Chicagoans. | 1982 |
| Union Carbide | Gas leak in Bhopal, India, that killed 19,000 and affected 500,000 more | 1984 |
| Walmart | Website recommends that buyers of the Planet of the Apes video might also be interested in a Martin Luther King Jr. video | 2006 |
| Michael Lynton, CEO, Sony Entertainment | Caving to North Korean demands to stop the release of the film The Interview | 2015 |
| Scott Rudin and Amy Pascal, Sony Pictures | Sony hack released emails attacking Angelina Jolie | 2014 |
| Samsung | Samsung Galaxy Note 7 batteries overheating and catching on fire | 2017 |
| Applebee's | Serving alcohol to 15-month-old in an apple juice cup. | 2011 |
| Netflix | Splitting up Netflix combined streaming/DVD mail package and charging separately for each | 2011 |
| Taco Bell | Lawsuit claiming that Taco Bell's beef is only 36% real beef | 2011 |
| Las Vegas Motor Speedway | Unsafe track conditions at Las Vegas Motor Speedway that resulted in crash and death of Dan Wheldon | 2011 |
| Best Buy | Overcharging for bottled water after Hurricane Harvey hits Houston | 2017 |
| Equifax | Cybersecurity breach that exposed personal data of 143 million Americans | 2017 |
| Harvey Weinstein | Sexually harassing women for nearly three decades. | 2017 |
| MoviePass | Outage of its service from lack of funds | 2018 |
| Salt City Tattoo | "Rape Kit" as white elephant gift at Christmas Party | 2017 |
| The Mayo Clinic | For its founder desecrating the body of Native American "Cut Nose" | 2018 |
| Eric Yuan, CEO of Zoom | Security breaches in Zoom video conferencing platform | 2020 |
| McDonald’s (China) | Posting a sign disallowing black people from entering restaurant | 2020 |
| Kentucky Fried Chicken (United Kingdom) | Chicken shortage in the U.K. due to a change in its supplier. | 2018 |
| hatWRKS | Selling patches with a yellow Star of David and the text "not vaccinated" following push for Covid-19 vaccinations | 2021 |
| St. Johns County School District | Digitally altering yearbook photos to make girls more modestly dressed | 2021 |
