This story brings up an interesting point, namely what's stopping hackers from simply diving their stolen proceeds among thousands of bank accounts, across hundreds of different banks?
I could easily imagine it would take 10x more money to reclaim it then what was stolen in the first place after accounting for all the lawyer fees, employee time, etc...
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 28.6 ms ] threadI could easily imagine it would take 10x more money to reclaim it then what was stolen in the first place after accounting for all the lawyer fees, employee time, etc...
Why would they want to?
Making money “disappear” after a couple of international transfers isn’t particularly difficult.