Cybersecurity is one of the most important but ugliest/boring topics, and it lacks proper memes; the 2015-2016 Bangladeshi Bank SWIFT heist attempt showed that hackers nearly stole $1 billion from a developing country in one operation—far exceeding the largest physical bank robbery ($60 million)—and within 5-10 years there will be a 'COVID moment' for cyber where things become very dark very fast.
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“the biggest bank robbery in history was I think it's about $60 million in Brazil in about 2015 2016 with cyber crime recently they almost hacked $1 billion from the Bangladeshi Bank using the Swift system right for context that year the Bangladeshi GDP was like 230 billion”
Created: 8/10/2026, 10:20:38 PM
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