A former Microsoft engineer stole more than $10M from the company

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It would be interesting to learn the technical side of things on how he managed to pull out $10M in gift cards from this ecommerce system.

Like it would seem to be a simple audit would discover that "Hey $10M more gift cards have been redeemed than were sold..."

I think he has the source code that can generate XBox Live Gift Cards by exploiting the server. Then convert them to Microsoft Points and then issue a refund over time.

He got greedy and got caught, I am sure it triggered some sort of loss prevention algorithm. Microsoft is not stupid and a $10M USD rebate would show up in a log somewhere and be read by a bot to flag it as suspicious.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22425648

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