Office Space Redux - Thief wrangles micropayments into $50,000

[harry]

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/201252/hacker-takes-50000-a-few-cents-at-a-time.html

[zach]

And a guy on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire's Movie Week made a cool $250,000 just by knowing about that plot device from Office Space:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5monB4fIzy8

It looks like he was excited to get that question.

[xlnt]

he's not a thief. he committed fraud by giving fake names when opening bank accounts, or something like that. then these companies voluntarily deposited money into his accounts; that part isn't stealing, even if it's based on fraud.

also the article calls him a hacker not because he did something impressive with computers but because he did something illegal with them. sigh...