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What is amazing is that nobody infiltrated their structure and ran off with the money. There are sophisticated criminal organisations out there that go to much, much more effort to obtain funding. Just to take Hezbollah since it's all over the news recently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funding_of_Hezbollah#Latin_Ame...

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> What is amazing is that nobody infiltrated their structure and ran off with the money.

How do you know that, on top of whatever SBF, etc., ran off with, embezzled, misdirected, and stole, someone else didn't?

AFAIK, there is clear accounting of misuse of some amount of the funds, but it there's no complete balanced accounting overall, and the whole structure of the FTX network of conpanies was designed to make that impossible.

I posted something shortly before the crash https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32077583

Security exploitations are oversold in the tech community. Probably out of a desire to be cool and hacker-like. If you wanted hundreds of millions it was there for the taking.

Pretty sure FTX was a sophisticated criminal organisation themselves. Probably didn't want a turf war.

I've only followed the situation casually but I really didn't get this impression. Enormous mess of corporate structure and accounting and no exit plan?

Wasn't there a still unexplained last-day hack of a fortune there?

You need knowledge for such a penetration. This kind of internal knowledge is usually only available to people working close to the execs.

All it took to get almost a million dollars from a customer of a previous employer was to penetrate the e-mail server, collect a list of high-value accounts and a sample billing statement, then to send an e-mail with "updated" banking credentials for a large payment which was coming due.

that happens all the time

You also need knowledge and craft to get people in other countries' militaries to spy for you against their home country, yet this is done every day around the world. Compared to that (or compared to pretty much anything) FTX was a joke of an organization.

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