I was the victim of a pretty bizarre super in-your-face academic theft. Someone snooped a half-finished draft of mine off GitHub and...actually got it published in a real journal.

https://forbetterscience.com/2023/10/30/stephensons-alternat...

My institution completely brushed it off as a no problem, and said that it wasn't worth pursuing it at all.

It was very traumatising (and still is). I lost all faith in academia.