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Coder wrote a bug so bad security guards wanted a word
(www.theregister.com)
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That's a process error, not an individual's fault. Sounds like not a single person reviewed the code, they just said, "sounds good, deploy!" on a major production system.
You can be certain that there are tons of other bugs in the system that just have more subtle effects.