"UK Car Insurance Giant's Password Reset [False-Alarm] Crashes Servers Motoring monolith stalls as punters slam into website UK car insurance giant the AA caused all sorts of confusion on Monday after accidentally sending out a "password update" email to people. The alert led to motorists rushing to log into the motoring organization's website to change their passwords, only to overload the servers and effectively run them over. Brits were furious after discovering that they couldn't access their profiles, fearing hackers had broken into their accounts and changed their passwords..." https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/26/aa_false_alarm_email/
