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The old accidentally putting the account number in the amount field.

The fact that this was overlooked by multiple people looking at the transaction is the scary part.

Apparently not, the article notes that the amount field cam prepopulated with 15 zeros.

Then shouldn't $280 became $280\times 10^15 = $280000\times 10^12 = $280000tn dollars? Why $81tn ? Even if the currency is Brazil real, it should evaluate to about 48,000 trillion USD.

But was it overlooked though? We are looking at it

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