Samsung Fat Finger Error

Samsung Fat Finger Error

In 2018, Samsung accidentally issued 1,000 shares of their Samsung stock to 2,000 of their employees. It took them 37 minutes to realize this error and by then 16 of those employees had already managed to sell their shares for approximately $9,000,000 each. The error caused the price of Samsung stock to drop by 11 percent within a day and to fluctuate after that.

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