Bugs have been known to cause some fairly major blow outs [0]. It's pretty/very rare for malicious code/data to get involved because this sort of thing is almo

Bugs have been known to cause some fairly major blow outs [0]. It's pretty/very rare for malicious code/data to get involved because this sort of thing is almost always co-hosted with the exchange. There's nowhere really to inject yourself. I'm sure it happens in other parts of the process, just not much in the very low latency parts. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_Capital_Group#2012_stock_trading_disruption https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_Capital_Group#2012_stoc...