It didn't comment, though, when the controversy originally surfaced back in 2012, and Eich himself only acknowledged the apparent discrepancy in a blogpost which skirted around the issue.
The next step is to review what documentation there is, and then to interview those people who might know what caused a discrepancy in a company's finances.
If the assessment shows that the assets did not meet the underwriting standards promised to investors, financial firms must explain the discrepancy in a filing.
It sometimes fails to detect a discrepancy in a vote that is known to have been problematic, and occasionally detects fiddling where there was none.
The Australian computer scientist Craig Wright's claim to be the bitcoin creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, has been called into doubt by the discovery of a discrepancy in a central piece of his evidence.
In December Jonathan Portes, a former chief economist at the Department for Work and Pensions, highlighted the discrepancy in a blogpost in which he examined David Cameron's assertion that 40% of EU recent migrants claimed benefits.
