Google "randomly" transferred 250000 dollars to users of the vulnerability, with the official response calling it "human error"

Beijing time on September 19 news, Google company occurred an oolong incident, Google unexpectedly transferred nearly 250,000 US dollars (about 1.74 million yuan) to a blogger and security engineer, the parties said they waited nearly a month to receive the company's reply. Google said it was "human error" in response to the oolong incident.

Security engineer Sam Curry tweeted that the tech giant "randomly" transferred $249,999 to him, and that it had been more than three weeks since he received the transfer.

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He added that he didn't spend the money, but waited for the company to find out and contact him. He also told the media that he might need to transfer the money to another account in order to avoid paying taxes on the money.

A Google spokesperson later issued a statement saying: "The team recently made a payment to the wrong party due to human error. We thank our affected partners for promptly informing us of this situation, and we are working to rectify it. "

It is understood that security engineer Sam Curry works for companies, including Google, on "bug rewards" for finding vulnerabilities in company software. But he doesn't think there's a connection between his work for Google and the money falling from the sky.

In a similar incident last month, Crypto.com, one of the world's largest cryptocurrency trading platforms, inadvertently transferred $10 million to a woman living in Australia in May 2021, until a year-end audit seven months later, when she had already used the money to buy a mansion.