He got an unexplained $250,000 payment from Google. The company says it was a mistake

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Google’s logo on a building on the company’s Mountain View, Calif., campus in 2019. The company says it mistakenly sent a security engineer $250,000. Jeff Chiu/AP

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Sam Curry, a self-described hacker, says he was mysteriously paid $249,999.99 by Google last month and that he had no idea why the tech giant simply handed over a quarter-million dollars.

“It’s been a little over 3 weeks since Google randomly sent me $249,999 and I still haven’t heard anything on the support ticket. Is there

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