A hobbyist's air-traffic-control browser game had its leaderboard hacked within hours (airport.apunen.com)
You drag each color-coded plane's path by hand to the runway threshold that matches it, landing and launching before two aircraft collide. There's no tutorial: players spent their first minutes inventing their own routing rules, then their next minutes crashing anyway.
A Principal Engineer at AWS who works on EKS showed up with a detailed list of interface fixes. Someone else had already worked out you could just POST a fake score straight to the API, and the board filled with ten-thousand-landing runs that never happened.
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