Cryptocurrency firm transfers €7.2m to woman and doesn’t notice for seven months

Firm struggling to get money back as most of it has been moved to other accounts, including a four-bedroom house, which was put in name of Australian woman's sister, who lives in Malaysia

Crypto.com accidentally transferred €7.2m to an Australian woman when processing a $100 refund.

Cryptocurrency trading platform Crypto.com accidentally transferred AUS$10.5m (€7.2m) to an Australian woman when processing a $100 refund, and failed to notice the error for seven months.

The company — which paid Hollywood star Matt Damon to feature in a Super Bowl commercial with the slogan “fortune favours the brave” — discovered it had accidentally transferred the fortune to Melbourne woman Thevamanogari Manivel in December 2021, seven months after the error was made.