Mizuho Securities lost $225 million when

a. hackers broke into its trading system and raided the accounts of 10,000 of its most important customers.
b. a bug in its billing system caused it to send out improper invoices to 10,000 of its most important customers.
c. a bug in its currency trading system caused it to sell yen and purchase dollars when it should have purchased yen and sold dollars.
d. it tried unsuccessfully to automate the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
e. one of its employees mistyped a sell order, and a bug in the Tokyo Stock Exchange trading program made it impossible to cancel the order.

E

Computer Science & Information Technology

You might also like to view...

Which of the following is the correct term describing the middle of the Internet, owned by various Internet service providers and consisting of a complex network of networks?

A) WAN B) LAN C) Internet core D) Internet access link

Computer Science & Information Technology

Pick the C++ keywords out of the following list.

a) while b) total_weight c) double d) if e) number_of_bars

Computer Science & Information Technology