Bank Employee Falls Asleep On Keyboard, Transfers 222,222,222.22

[thatguy]

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-...sleep-keyboard-transfers-€22222222222-mistake

A "German bank employee fell asleep on his keyboard and accidentally transformed a minor transfer into a 222 million euro ($293 million) order, a court heard Monday. The Hessen labour court heard that the man was supposed to transfer just 62.40 euros from a bank account belonging to a retiree, but instead "fell asleep for an instant, while pushing onto the number 2 key on the keyboard" -- making it a huge 222,222,222.22 euro order." Nearly a third of a billion mistake blamed on a "sleepy finger?" That's a new one...

PMPL

Me thinks sleepy finger is very active sleepy at crimex opening time

 

[willrocks]

It really makes me wonder what type of systems they have when an employee can 'accidentally' send quarter of a billion.

 

[trew]

The story is either BS or the software developers that built the system should be fired

 

[willrocks]

The Hessen labour court heard that the man was supposed to transfer just 62.40 euros from a bank account belonging to a retiree, but instead "fell asleep for an instant, while pushing onto the number 2 key on the keyboard" -- making it a huge 222,222,222.22 euro order."

Does their system even check that the source bank account has sufficient funds? Not too many retirees have a lazy quarter of a billion.

 

[trew]

Does their system even check that the source bank account has sufficient funds? Not too many retirees have a lazy quarter of a billion.

Perhaps the system allows an account to go into overdraft - with approval.

The story is that the person who approved the transfer got fired and too the bank to court.

A system that allows that amount of overdraft, even with approval, is just flawed in the first place.

 

[JulieW]

Which key did his sleepy hand hit next. Presumably his somnambulant digit hit enter.

 

[Clawhammer]

The buzzword for this story is "Redundancy"
The software needs some...and the employee will definitely get one