Why can’t a Hacker add Digits to my Bank Account?

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As most of money in the world is digital anyways, Why can’t people fake transactions to a Bank account or just add one or two zeros to the balance? What makes online banking so safe that this doesnt work?

Most of even well guarded things have been hacked in the past, so i would imagine it’s at least possible?

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It’s not that a hacker couldn’t do it, it’s that the discrepancy would likely be detected, investigated, and reversed at some point.

Banks typically would have many automated systems in place that regularly check for discrepancies between how much money they should have vs how much money they actually have.

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