Wells Fargo Says Hundreds of Customers Lost Homes After Computer Glitch (cnn.com)

Hundreds of people had their homes foreclosed on after software used by Wells Fargo incorrectly denied them mortgage modifications. From a report: The embattled bank revealed the issue in a regulatory filing this week and said it has set aside $8 million to compensate customers affected by the glitch. [...] Wells Fargo said the computer error affected "certain accounts" that were undergoing the foreclosure process between April 2010 and October 2015, when the issue was corrected. About 625 customers were incorrectly denied a loan modification or were not offered one even though they were qualified, according to the filing. In about 400 cases, the customers were ultimately foreclosed upon.

Comments

Would Rust have prevented this?

[Anonymous Coward]

Would using a modern, safety-first programming language like Rust, that's designed to avoid whole classes of software bugs, prevented this glitch from happening?

They were already being foreclosed on.

[Anonymous Coward]

These people had already fucked up anyway. It's not like these were buyers who were up to date on payments and then some odd bug suddenly took their home away.