TIL about the 2018 Samsung fat-finger error, in which an employee of Samsung Securities mistakenly distributed shares worth US$100 billion to employees.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Samsung_fat-finger_error

Boy, I sure hope somebody got fired for that blunder...Oh...yikes

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expatriado@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 1y

fat-finger? we all know Robin Hood has great aim and doesn't miss like that

Rookwood@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y

Based. I hope they didn't get fired.

ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 1y
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y

What a hero

henfredemars@infosec.pub · 7 pts · 1y

"Mistakenly"

magnetosphere@fedia.io · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

So… of the employees who sold shares before the warnings, what laws did they break?

Vorticity@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

I don't know Korea's laws but this would likely be illegal in the US, too. It depends on whether it could be proven that you knew that the stocks were issued in error. And even if it wasn't a criminal act, the company would be within their rights to recover the mistakenly issued stocks.

BackOnMyBS@lemmy.autism.place · 5 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Boy, I sure hope somebody got fired for that blunder…Oh…yikes

Anyone have a non-paywalled version?

AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 1y
kryllic@programming.dev · 6 pts · 1y

Sorry about that, the wayback machine didn't have a version without the paywall unfortunately :/