And somewhere on a hard drive, svb_bloodbait.txt remains the perfect tombstone for the first bank killed by a group chat.
March 9, 2023
Nobody replied to that message.
By 10:00 AM, the FDIC arrived to seize the bank. The Pastebin post ends with a single line of code from a terminated engineer: system.out.println("Game over. SVB has $0.00 left.");
By 6:00 AM on March 9, CEO Greg Becker was on a call. He told investors, "We have ample liquidity. Don't panic." site%3apastebin.com+silicon+valley+bank
An anonymous employee dumps 47 pages of internal Slack logs and risk management dashboards onto Pastebin. The file is named svb_bloodbait.txt . Part 1: The Champagne Era (The Context)
The most damaging piece of the Pastebin leak is the . On the morning of March 10, he had a 9:00 AM call with his executive team. And somewhere on a hard drive, svb_bloodbait
Reply: "He is on a private jet to the Napa Valley office. He is not taking calls."