Facebook and Google Were Victims of $100M Payment Scam • Hacker News Board

Re: Facebook and Google Were Victims of $100M Payment Scam

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Post by hn_throwaway_99 » Fri, Apr 28, 2017, 2:25 PM UTC

chiph wrote: post #2

The interesting aspect is how a $100m theft is not considered a "material event" with regards to SEC reporting at these firms.

If you look at FB's and Google's annual revenue, the time period of the fraud, and the fact that it appears they got most of the money back, I'm surprised why anyone would consider this a "material event". Google had around 90 billion dollars in revenue in 2016. No, I don't see why a, say, $10 million dollar loss over a couple years to Google would be considered material.

Re: Facebook and Google Were Victims of $100M Payment Scam

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Post by SA500 » Fri, Apr 28, 2017, 2:31 PM UTC

chiph wrote: post #2

The interesting aspect is how a $100m theft is not considered a "material event" with regards to SEC reporting at these firms.

All the money was recovered which makes me think it was never paid out or there is more to this

Re: Facebook and Google Were Victims of $100M Payment Scam

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Post by jwilk » Fri, Apr 28, 2017, 2:36 PM UTC

elorant wrote: post #10

drewg123 wrote: post #5

What is the state-of-the art way to block those annoying autoplay videos? I have previously enabled click-to-play for flash, but now that videos have moved to html5, that no longer works. So then I installed the "Disable HTML5 Autoplay" chrome extension, which worked for a while, but seems to be less and less effective these days. Then I resorted to picking site elements with Ublock. Amazingly, this didn't work today…

Have you tried to disable JavaScript? That might work. There are even add-ons that let you do with one click.

Then you get an empty page...

Disabling JS and CSS kinda works, if you don't mind useless images that take the whole screen.

Here's an archived copy, which also works with JS disabled:

https://archive.fo/JwNn6