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Monday, January 3 6:01 PM SGTComputer 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
Well, did they immediately liquidate their accounts?Amy
-- Amy (ahm@snowcap.net), January 05, 2000.