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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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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Though someone did steal 3,000 kg of gold one time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brink's-Mat_robbery

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That’s fucking WILD, I have never read about that.

It is insane that you can do that kind of a thing just sitting in front of a laptop with Tails now, though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, it’s pretty crazy

They made a TV mini-series about it a few years ago. It’s called The Gold. If you’re in the UK, it’s on BBC iPlayer. If not, then there may be other means of acquiring it!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I will absolutely check that out, thank you!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Holy moly. 3,000 kg of gold at today's price would be $281,382,000 (281 million dollars). Gold is $93,794 per kg at the moment.