Blogger and security engineer Sam Curry got the shock of a lifetime recently after he found out Google had transferred USD249,999.99 or ~RM1,136,374.95 into his account for no reason. Perplexed by the transfer, he contacted Google and eventually was told by the tech giant that a “human error” caused the accidental large sum transfer.
Taking to his Twitter account on Wednesday (14 September 2022), Curry shared a screenshot of the transfer from Google, revealing that it has been a little over 3 weeks since the tech giant made the transfer without giving any notice. Moreover, despite almost one month having passed by, Google has yet to respond to Curry’s enquiry on the matter. Curry even jokingly said that he is okay if Google doesn’t want the money back.
Curry, who is also a staff engineer at Yuga Labs recently told NPR that he sometimes does bug bounty hunting for tech companies and had received payments from Google for such services before. However, Curry believes that the quarter of a million dollar transfer has got nothing to do with bug bounty hunting and may just be a mistake on Google’s part.
Well, that guess turns out to be true as Google had since released a statement to NPR saying that the transfer was made in error. A Google spokesperson said that its team had made a payment to the wrong party as the result of human error.
Furthermore, Google said that it is really appreciative of Curry for quickly communicating the matter. The tech giant further elaborated that it is currently working to correct the error by getting the money back from the blogger.
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