I was on a conference call with a bank that due to a number miscommunications and general idiocy was under the impression that they were possibly in violation of some banking laws (no comment on what laws) because they misinterpreted what exactly was happening. Their lawyers supposedly told them they were at risk for an unbelievable sum of fines and criminal stuff.
In short they saw some data they didn't understand that seemed to indicate things at the bank were very much not how they were thought to be, and indicated something very specific was happening. In reality that was not the case but a lot of assumptions by morons somehow were believed and everything snowballed into lots of corroborating "evidence" that seemed to indicate bad things. This was a bank that rarely had this level of stupid information and assumptions rise to the top so nobody actually questioned it no matter how absurd it seemed.
My presence on the call was purely because the bank wanted every vendor they had looking to see if they saw problems, so I was basically just poking around telling them what i saw from my end.
At one point on the call there was a dude in an unmanned data center literally just flipping off power switches and cutting the cables of various equipment as he was given the locations for it. It was frantic and very unamerican bank like (at least the ones I worked with were pretty cool customers normally). I turned my speakerphone on to let my coworkers listen to the chaos.
In the end, it was a stupid SQL server related virus thing that created some good old fashioned network disruption and when that was solved and nothing looked like the sky was falling, everyone came to their senses. Once the dude pulled the power to enough of them everything calmed down and I checked my bank account and it was all there... but no excess either :(