Google accidentally transferred approximately US$250,000 to a blogger and security engineer. The party said they waited for about a month before getting the company. Answer to. In response to the Oolong incident, Google said it was “human error”.
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Security engineer Sam Curry tweeted that the tech giant sent him $249,999 “at random” and that more than three weeks had passed since he received the transfer.
It's been a little over 3 weeks since Google randomly sent me $249,999 and I still haven't heard anything on the support ticket. Is there any way we could get in touch @Google?
(it's OK if you don't want it back…) pic.twitter.com/t6f7v5erli
— Sam Curry (@samwcyo) September 14, 2022
He said he didn’t spend the money, but waited for the company to find out and contact them. He also told the outlet that he may also need to transfer the money to another account to avoid paying taxes on the money.
A Google spokesperson later issued a statement saying: “The team recently paid the wrong party due to human error. We thank the affected partners for quickly alerting us to this situation and We’re working to fix that.”
It is understood that security engineer Sam Curry performs “bug bounty” work for companies including Google, and is paid to find vulnerabilities in the company’s software. However, he sees no connection between his work for Google and the money that fell from the sky.
In a similar incident last month, Crypto.com, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency trading platforms, mistakenly transferred $10 million to a woman living in Australia in May 2021. The error was not detected in the audit until the end of a year, seven months later. At that time, he had used the money to buy a mansion.
