Someone in the EFT dept said do it for the plot - ThreadSky

histoftech.bsky.social • 3 days ago

Someone in the EFT dept said do it for the plot

Reposted from Michael A Osborne

Who amongst us has not accidentally sent $81 trillion when you only meant to send $280

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carolotta.me•3 days ago

like this could be an andor op

clarissasorenson.bsky.social•3 days ago

They got to keep the interest accrued while it was in their account, right?

galsh.bsky.social•3 days ago

The bank I was using in grad school once "lost" my bank account. The guy fixing it went: ok, so how much money did you have in it? Ready to just punch in the number....

histoftech.bsky.social•2 days ago

😧

emer.net•3 days ago

How does this error even get made? Like I’m trying to work out the computer mistake and I’m coming up empty.

alexbenyon.bsky.social•3 days ago

A software error would be my guess, that or cat sat on the keyboard

emer.net•3 days ago

Oh yeah - that's what I was trying to figure - 81x10^12 isn't any obvious overflow or weird factor.

alexbenyon.bsky.social•3 days ago

Just good old human error and poor processes it turns out
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-inflation-dow-sp500-nasdaq-02-28-2025/card/citigroup-almost-made-an-81-trillion-mistake-K4dBcCiYByGJdVwPfFBw

alexbenyon.bsky.social•3 days ago

But I was thinking it must have called the wrong field or string as the multiplication factor and accidently multiplied by the account number or something ridiculous and not the interest rate or something