People make mistakes. Even the internet search engine. A self-proclaimed hacker and a Yuga Labs security engineer were accidentally handed nearly $250k by the search engine.
A mystery payment appeared in an engineer's bank account a few weeks ago. He filed a customer support request because he thought it was an error on the part of the search engine. The engineer decided to take the issue to the internet when the search engine didn't respond to the ticket.
Curry said that he hasn't heard anything from the support ticket since he received $249,999 from the search engine. There is no way we could get in touch with them.
He said it's okay if you don't want it back.
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
Curry had a hunch that was correct. Someone else was supposed to get a quarter million bones, but the payment was accidentally sent to the wrong person. It was like sending a text to the wrong number but with a lot of cash.
A human error resulted in a payment being made to the wrong party. It was communicated to us quickly and we are working to correct it.
Curry was not a total rando that the search engine plucked from its millions of site surfers. Curry toldNPR that he does bug bounty hunting for several companies outside of Yuga Labs.
Curry was in the company's payroll system, and someone accidentally hit the wrong name. Our sympathies go out to the person who made the mistake on the part of Google. We're pretty sure this won't happen many times, because of the size and sophistication of the company. I'm pretty sure it does.
The engineer was sent almost $250,000 by the company.
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