Significant deficiencies in internal controls, unauthorized trading activities, computer hacking and the breach of trust involving a conscious effort by the rogue trader to deceive his managers were noticed. Jérôme Kerviel is accused of creating a huge loses by a single unauthorized trader in financial history. In the course of 2007 he made unauthorized trade worth € 30 bn. on European stock market futures, winning € 1.4 bn. by the end of the year. Having disguised the importance of his exposure, and earnings, with fictitious trades, he went on in January 2008 to make even bigger trades. The bank stated that he deliberately set out to lose money in 2008 to bring down the suspicious size of his 2007 earnings.