That was a complete dumb luck accident due to a spelling mistake.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/spelling-mista...
Note that the rest of the money disappeared quite effectively.
Re:Exodus Bitcoin Wallet: $490k swindle
by acdha on Wednesday February 21, 2024 @07:44AM
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> Note that the rest of the money disappeared quite effectively.
No, I’d suggest reading the article I shared. Some of the money was laundered successfully but they recovered tens of millions and the bank in the Philippines which didn’t help was heavily fined. The SWIFT system developers also took this very seriously and added additional safeguards, which seems like a better sign of safety for a financial system than mocking them for having poor opsec and saying they should have used a hardware wallet like the cryptocurrency world tends to do.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh_Bank_robbery
https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-57520169
Not perfect, but 90-something percent better than no recourse. More importantly, it’s also not a given that individuals lose everything as opposed to higher operating costs for a bank. The kinds of crimes we see in the cryptocurrency world tend to leave individuals with no recourse other than very expensive private investigations, whereas a major financial institution at least had the resources to go after the money without going bankrupt.