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North Korea steals $1.5bn as it pulls off world’s biggest ever heist (www.aol.com)
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The hackers stole more cryptocurrency in one attack than all the funds stolen by North Korean cyber criminals in 2024, when the rogue state’s cyber attackers made off with around $1.3bn in digital coins, according to cryptocurrency analysts Chainalysis.

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[–] Tamo240@programming.dev 1 points 6 days ago

Why does any one employee have the ability to unilaterally move this much value? Even in non-malicious circumstances that doesn't seem like a good way of organising a currency?