Google mistakenly cuts $250K check to tech whiz, realizes mistake one month later
A self-proclaimed hacker and security expert was sent nea🌌rly $250,000 by Google in a gaffe by the search giant – and the company failed to address the issue for almost a month even after being immedia🍸tely contacted by the dumbfounded tech whiz.
Sam Curry – a security professional at Yuga Labs, which develops NFTs and digital collectibles – saw his ﷺbank account swell by $249,999 sometime around the end of August, he said.
The bug bounty hunter often seeks out flaws and vulnerabilities in software for companies, including Google, b🐻ut said he had no𝄹t done any recent work for them.
He did not spend his unearned windfall and immediatel🐲y contacted the company, but did not hear back from Google for weeks. He stil❀l had the money in his account last Thursday, he said.
“It’s OK if you don’t want it back,” Curry tweeted.
The compa🐼ny finally acknowledged its mistake late last week and sent Curry instructions on how to return the money.
“Our team recently made a payment to the wrong party as the result of human error,” a Google spokesperson told The Post on Monday. “We appreciate that it was quickly communicated to us by the impacted partner, and we are working to correct it.”