According to an estimate by the Asian Development Bank, the economic impact of SARS was around $ 18 billion in East Asia, which comes to around 0.6 per cent of their total GDP (ADB, 2003).
The system had been hacked. The culprit in this case was Nevil Maskelyne, a magician. Allegedly, he had been hired by a British wired-telegraph company which was worried that Marconi’s invention might ruin its business. Technology has advanced a lot since 1903. And it has created a deeply interconnected world. The financial system is a case in point.