When I bought a cigarette box, I was charged about 220 Kyōgen

It seems that there was an incident that an amount of money exceeding the national budget was charged just by buying one cigarette. In addition, it is reported that there are people who were charged a huge amount of money more than 17 digits at the same time. What on earth is this sort of thing happening?

Details are from the following.
Visa card surprise: $ 23, 148, 855, 308, 184, 500 - Weird news - msnbc.com

Josh Muszynski who lives in the state of New Hampshire in the United States seems to have bought a cigarette box with a card at the gas station because the cigarette is gone. After checking the card details on the Internet at a later date, it was said that the amount billed was 2 3148 trillion 855,381,484,500 dollars (about 220 Kyon). Muszynski immediatelyBank of AmericaI kept calling for more than 2 hours to confirm the number to, and the correction was done on the bank side the next day.

According to VISA, this incident seems to have occurred due to a technical problem, and it seems that this influence affected less than 13,000 people. It seems that Jon Seale who lives in the state of North Texas due to the same thing on July 13 has claimed that a huge amount of 17 digits was charged.

I think that you will understand the feeling that you can not understand whether it is a dream or a reality when it is claimed that an amount that suddenly exceeds the national budget of the United States far more.