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They've since moved to more anonymous platforms. https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/ae4keu/kidnappers_d...

Things that are exposed to an adversarial environment are usually engineered with that in mind. Locks are (usually) designed to be hard to pick, for instance.

>Why is it that even slightly old systems are so buggy that they are trivially hackable for a moderately well funded group?

Because there's not enough money in making things bug-free from the start. It is possible (see seL4 and They Write the Right Stuff), but the incentives aren't there.

Some kind of liability or minimum standard (similar to building code) would help, but I'm not sure just how it would be best implemented.