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by oefrha 1550 days ago
No, $625M transfer out of a single bank account would raise tons of eyebrows. No way it’s authorized by some env vars.
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Maybe, but 30d ago it would have been "No way someone would store $625M USD in a game dev bank account".
If the hackers are sophisticated, I would think they would start wiring in much smaller amounts and thru accounts so tracing is harder. Much like what they are going to have to do with the funds in that wallet.

If they setup some plausible 3rd party company the game studio could use and started transfers of $10k a pop it might be some time before anyone catches it.

That is slow anything over 10,000 in bank transfers will reviewed, and there will be a dedicated account manager for a 600m account.

They are going to review and flag it. You might loose few hundred thousands but not all 625m.