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posted by Fnord666 on Friday September 13 2019, @10:56AM   Printer-friendly
from the who-needs-a-payroll dept.

Submitted via IRC for SoyCow2718

NY Payroll Company Vanishes With $35 Million

This communique came after employees at companies that depend on MyPayrollHR to receive direct deposits of their bi-weekly payroll payments discovered their bank accounts were instead debited for the amounts they would normally expect to accrue in a given pay period.

To make matters worse, many of those employees found their accounts had been dinged for two payroll periods — a month’s worth of wages —leaving their bank accounts dangerously in the red.

The remainder of this post is a deep-dive into what we know so far about what transpired, and how such an occurrence might be prevented in the future for other payroll processing firms.


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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday September 14 2019, @12:14AM (2 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Saturday September 14 2019, @12:14AM (#893918) Journal

    Why do you think they're working on AI weapons? That's going to be the elites' endgame: deadly weapons that have no pesky human elements like a conscience or unwillingness to kill other humans.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 14 2019, @02:03AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 14 2019, @02:03AM (#893950)

    Aren't we the experts in technology? Perhaps, we can direct the bots where they should.

    Another and perhaps an easier approach is to make them kill each other. Election interference, email leaks, leaks who leaked them and watch them fight. It is even exiting and enjoyable.

  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday September 14 2019, @12:27PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Saturday September 14 2019, @12:27PM (#894043) Journal
    It certainly simplifies the problem. With AI weapons, they can now be defeated by a few hackers or a software bug.