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sneak on Oct 1, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: DeFi bug accidentally gives $90M to users

Wouldn’t bad OCR on a check change the account to be debited, not the account into which it is deposited?

thebean11 on Oct 1, 2021 [–]

It specifically happened with payments from the IRS (I was getting someone's refunds) so my assumption was some wonky automated deposit handling on the bank's end. OCR is my theory because we had the same account number, except a 1 was switched to a 7.

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