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Bus system lost $3M to Excel hardcoding

Alexandria's transit authority overspent by $3 million because someone manually entered a cash balance number into a spreadsheet instead of linking it to actual data. No one reviewed it, no controls caught it, millions went missing. This is what happens when you let spreadsheets do accounting work and nobody looks at the formula bar.
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