That isn’t the case here. Anyway, people get defrauded through banks all the time with advance fee fraud, 419, and other scams and banks don’t reverse those.
What do you mean? Are you saying FTX wasn't hacked by an anonymous hacker?
Banks reverse transactions sometimes. It sounds like in many cases the reason they can't be reversed is because the money got converted into cryptocurrency.
>Wire Fraud Recovery is Difficult, but Possible[1]
>When the stolen funds arrive in the fraudster’s bank account, they engage a network of money launderers who immediately withdraw funds in cash, wire the money to a number of different accounts and/or convert it to cryptocurrency.[1]
>A full recovery of lost funds was only possible in 29% of cases. In 40% of the cases, less than 10% of the funds were recovered.[2]
That means that 60% of the time at least 10% of the money is recovered.
>Cyber perpetrators are moving stolen funds between bank accounts and cryptocurrency wallets at a rapid rate.[2]
* People rarely deal with large amounts physical cash. They deal with abstractions built upon cash (checks, credit cards, ACH, other electronic transfers).
* I think it's the same for banks. I think banks also mainly operate on abstractions built upon cash.
* An attacker who wants to steal physical cash needs to be physically present. That means there's a more limited set of people who could attempt the attack. With hacking, people across the entire world can attempt the attack. With physical attacks, you're at risk of being physically apprehended and caught through physical investigations. With hacking you can be behind proxies and avoid getting caught. Additional, with hacking you can do the hack from a jurisdiction that won't care, so even if the victim and the victim's government know you did it, you won't face any consequences. You might even be on your own government's payroll.
