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Re:$600M taken in largest DeFi hack to date by DennisP on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @09:40PM (#28136946)
As if thefts never occur in legacy banking. Here's a SWIFT network hack that successfully stole $81 million from the central bank of Bangladesh:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh_Bank_robbery

At a lower level, mortgage wire fraud is a serious problem in real estate closings, and once it happens it's very difficult to get your money back:

https://www.rocketmortgage.com/learn/mortgage-wire-fraud

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Re:$600M taken in largest DeFi hack to date by tyingq on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @10:42PM (#28137329)
81 million out of ~950 million attempted, then 18 of the 81 later recovered.

So it was originally about the same scale as this one.

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