As a professional writer, I have been lamenting the demise of the proofreader – and the lack of authors’ ability or inclination to carefully proof their own work – for years. Now there’s proof (no pun intended) that even for the bad guys, careless typing can bring all your hard work crashing down around you.
A simple typographical error – the mispelling of the word “foundation” – prevented hackers from carrying out a digital theft from the Bangladesh Central Bank of almost a billion dollars. In this case, that was a win for law and order, but it just goes to show that a stray keystroke, especially when writing code, really does make a difference. And that applies to the good guys, too.
Read more about the case here:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/typo-thwarts-hackers-in-1-billion-cyber-heist-on-bangladesh-central-bank/2016/03/11/83466dd0-e7d8-11e5-a6f3-21ccdbc5f74e_story.html
