Dwelling House Savings & Loan Association, one of the country's few institutions to provide bank accounts to prisoners, failed last year after regulators warned the Pittsburgh S&L that its computer systems were vulnerable. Dwelling House was later hacked by cyber-thieves, who siphoned as much as $4 million out of its coffers.
Most criminals are truly stupid--unintelligent, uneducated--because criminality tends to not payoff in the long run, and stupid people overweight the short-run payoff. One might therefore conclude that computer theft would not be a concern, but this highlights that bad faith is very important because if there's a will, there's a way. Knowing your customer, or adversary, is very important because their end game often predicts tactical behavior.
In general, it is advisable to avoid doing business with dishonest people. But in this case it is not clear that the client base had something to do with the bank robbery.
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