Citigroup mistakenly credits customer account with $81 trillion in "near miss", FT reports

Citigroup erroneously credited $81 trillion , instead of $ 280 , to a customer's account.

The error was missed by a payments employee and a second official assigned to check the transaction before it was cleared to be processed the next day .

A third employee caught the error one -and-a-half hours after the payment was processed and the transaction was ultimately reversed several hours later .