Google strangely pays $250,000 to hacker. Here’s what he does next

Sam Curry, a self-described hacker, claims that Google paid him $249,999.99 inexplicably last month and that he is unsure of the reason for the tech giant's decision to do so.

"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 with @Google? "Curry tweeted on Tuesday with a screenshot of the transaction. He added: "It's OK if you don't want it back..."
Curry, a staff security engineer at Yuga Labs, revealed that he occasionally participates in bug bounty hunting for businesses like Google. People are then compensated to assist businesses and other groups in identifying software flaws.

However, he claims he was unable to connect the money sent into his bank account with bug bounty hunting for Google.

Curry claimed he was only keeping the money in case Google sought to get it back, but he was free to use it. He warned that if Google didn't respond to him right away, he could have to transfer the money into another account to avoid paying taxes on it.



Curry finally concluded that Google probably paid him unintentionally.

Apparently, he was correct.

An official Google spokeswoman said: "Due to a mistake made by one of our team members, we recently paid the incorrect person. We appreciate that the impacted partner swiftly informed us of the issue, and we are working to fix it. "

According to the spokeswoman, the business planned to recover the funds.

Curry stated that he was interested in learning how frequently something similar occurs at Google as well as what procedures are in place to look for similar failures. He said he still had the money in his account as of Thursday afternoon.


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