Accidental Crorepati! In shocking move, Google paid Rs. 2 crore to a hacker
In a shocking development, it has been revealed that Google has mistakenly paid a huge amount of Rs. 2 crore to a hacker, turning him into an accidental crorepati. What is worse, Google even forgot to take it back! The information was shared by the hacker himself. The self proclaimed hacker named Sam Curry (@samwcyo) even asked if there is any way he could get in touch with Google regarding the matter. Taking to his Twitter account he shared a screenshot and wrote, "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...)." Of course, the payment is in dollars (just under a quarter of a million dollars) and when rounded off in rupees, it runs into crores.
According to the screenshot shared by him, it can be seen that he has received $250,000 (approximately Rs. 2 crore) from Google in the month of August. What is more interesting is that the hacker himself is unaware of the reason why he received such a big amount from the tech giant.
According to the information shared by Curry over his Twitter bio, he is a self proclaimed hacker, runs a blog to explain web application security, and is a staff security engineer at Yuga Labs. "Hacker, bug bounty hunter, run a blog to better explain web application security. Staff Security Engineer @yugalabs," his Twitter bio read.
According to a report by NPR, Google confirmed that it had made the payment accidentally saying it was a result of human error. “Our team recently made a payment to the wrong party as the result of human error. We appreciate that it was quickly communicated to us by the impacted partner, and we are working to
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