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Hamuko 15 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 bill...

Reminds me of the time a Robinhood user killed themselves after Robinhood erroneously showed their account balance at -$730k.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55990461

noisy_boy 15 days ago [–]

In that case, they settled with Robinhood and FINRA fined Robinhood 70 million dollars.

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/07/01/business/robinhood-lawsui...

dymk 14 days ago | [–]

"They" being the family; Robinhood couldn't settle with the guy who was wronged because he, ya know, killed himself first

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