META MATERIALS INC.

Meta Materials lost its website and email for four days in July 2024, not to an outside intruder but to a former executive who still held the keys and cancelled the renewal on his way out. The company had wired its public presence and stakeholder mail to a single registration one departed insider could revoke, because offboarding never took the credential back. No data theft was claimed, and the executive went unnamed: the failure was an access list that never noticed he had left.