Computer Error Brings Billions for On-line Customer

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Monday, January 3 6:01 PM SGT

Computer error brings billions for on-line banking customer

COLOGNE, Germany, Jan 3 (AFP) -

The switch-over to 2000 was not completely free from the effects of the millennium bug for a number of banking customers here, the German news agency DPA reported on Monday.

An on-line customer of the local Cologne savings bank could scarely believe his eyes when he logged in on Saturday to examine his bank account: it showed a balance of 3,930,129,930, but the currency was not specified, DPA reported.

Similarly, a 43-year-old customer with the same bank found that nearly 13 million marks (6.65 million euros, dollars) had been erroneously credited to his account.

SOURCE: Yahoo News

http://sg.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/technology/afp/article.html?s=singapore/headlines/000103/technology/afp/Computer_error_brings_billions_for_on-line_banking_customer.html

-- Jennifer Bunker (Salt Lake City, Utah) (jen@bunkergroup.com), January 03, 2000

Answers

Well, did they immediately liquidate their accounts?

Amy

-- Amy (ahm@snowcap.net), January 05, 2000.


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