Tag: accidentally
Uncharted on PC accidentally gets a release date
Naughty Dog quietly – finally – announced an Uncharted PC release date in a new post on the Epic Games Store, marking the first time the action games are playable on PC. And then shortly after deals hunter Wario64 posted about the announcement, Epic removed the post, along with the entire game page. Evidently the post went up early, so while it may not be there now, you can pretty much guarantee the details are accurate and will surface once again in the near future.
The IRS says it accidentally exposed confidential information involving 120,000 taxpayers
Around 120,000 taxpayers who filed a Form 990-T will be hearing from the IRS in the coming weeks, telling them that the agency inadvertently exposed their information on its website. Exempted organizations, including charities and religious groups, with unrelated business income are required to file Form 990-T. As The Wall Street Journal notes, though, people with individual retirement accounts invested in assets that generate income, such as real estate, are also required to file the form. Filings by exempted organizations are supposed to be public, but those by private individuals aren’t.
The agency said the issue stemmed from a human cording error last year when Form 990-T became available for electronic filing. As you can guess, the error led to the bundling of non-public data with public data, which were all made available for download. It wasn’t until these past weeks that an employee discovered the issue and triggered an investigation that eventually led to the removal of the data that shouldn’t have been public in the first place.
In its letter, the IRS said the leaked data included individual names and business contact information. Affected taxpayers’ Social Security numbers, individual income details and other information that could impact their credit weren’t made public. The Journal, which was able to download some of the data before it was removed, said it included people’s income within their IRAs, as well.
Even though it has already removed the leaked data, the IRS is still reviewing the situation. The Treasury Department’s Anna Canfield Roth also said that the agency “has instructed the IRS to conduct a prompt review of its practices to ensure necessary protections are in place to prevent unauthorized data disclosures.”
Crypto.com claws back fortune after accidentally minting a millionaire
Let’s say you were Thevamanogari Manivel, a woman in Melbourne, Australia with an interest in crypto, and you allegedly used Crypto.com to request a refund of 100 Australian dollars, but instead received $10.5 million (about $7.2 million in U.S. dollars) by mistake. Would you immediately transfer the funds back? Or would you — again, allegedly — go on a buying spree, including the purchase of a five-bedroom home for your sister?
Don’t answer yet!
First, listen to a few words of advice from Hollywood actor Matt Damon, spoken on behalf of the very company you just received a massive payday from:
“Fortune favors the brave,” indeed.
Life-changing windfalls caused by glitches happen so often in the crypto world, it sort of seems like they’re now part of the thought process that leads people to invest in decentralized finance in the first place.
For instance, in 2017, a crypto wallet service called Parity accidentally gave a single user control of all of the wallets of a certain type, meaning that user was suddenly able to seize about $300 million in the cryptocurrency ether. That user, who wasn’t actually trying to perform some sort of heist in the first place, attempted to reverse what they had done in a panic, but, instead, accidentally stranded the funds permanently — in effect destroying $300 million.
And last year, the crypto firm Compound accidentally deposited seemingly random amounts of cryptocurrency in multiple accounts, which, all told, ended up totaling about $90 million. In the immediate aftermath of the initial reports, Compound CEO Robert Leshner tried to claw back all that money by asking nicely and then threatened to report the users to the IRS.
This is just a small sample of what happens when people win the “Accidental Crypto Millionaire Sweepstakes.” And notably, these are all cases that became publicly known.
In any case, it appears Manivel did exchange all that crypto she received in May of 2021 for regular Australian money, and did spend a great deal of it on things like real estate. Then Crypto.com — which is known as “Foris GFS” to Australian users — took legal action against Manivel this past February after discovering its mistake during an audit in December of last year. Her bank accounts were frozen and she was forced to sell the house she gave her sister, and give the proceeds to Crypto.com plus interest. All this is according to The Guardian.
But hey, if you listen to Matt Damon, you don’t want to be one of those losers who don’t take that big step into the unknown. Better to be one of “the ones who embrace the moment and commit.” Isn’t that right, Crypto.com?
Cryptocurrency exchange accidentally gave customer $10.5 million instead of a $100 refund
Crypto.com is kicking itself for a highly foolish clerical error. The cryptocurrency exchange recently issued a refund for a customer in Australia. The transaction was supposed to be for $100 AU ($68.55 US). However, the employee processing the refund entered an account number in the payment field resulting in a…
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The Sims 4 patch gets rid of aging bug and incest after accidentally adding them
If you have spent any amount of time with The Sims 4, or even appreciating one of the communities many content creators, you’ll know that the simulation title can be chaotic. Half the charm of The Sims 4 is undoubtedly wedding the weirdest of couples and ultimately finding unique ways to kill them off, but the latest bugs to plague players have taken this to an unprecedented level of strange.
Following last weeks’ free update to The Sims 4, which now allows players to choose the sexual orientation of their sims, a couple of unusual bugs emerged as a result.
The first of the bugs to emerge saw sims rapidly aging in a matter of minutes. For those who hate to look after toddlers, this wasn’t a terrible thing, but seeing entire families turn into seniors was frustrating for many.