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Man stole $122 million from Facebook and Google by sending them fake invoices - Techie + Gamers

Summary by Techie + Gamers
On an ordinary spring morning in 2015, a Facebook accounts-payable clerk keyed in a seven-figure wire to what looked like a trusted hardware supplier. No alarms rang, no red flags popped. The money left California, landed in Latvia and vanished. It was one of dozens of payments that ultimately siphoned $122 million from the coffers of Facebook and Google over a three-year stretch. All orchestrated by a single Lithuanian man armed only with forge…
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Techie + Gamers broke the news in on Saturday, July 5, 2025.
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