Type of Break-In...
10.) Insider Job(1997::$28 Million)
9.) Brute Force(1976::$50 Million)
8.) Abduction(2006::£53 Million)
7.) Underground Tunnel(2006::$69 Million)
6.) Great Train Robbery(1963::$74 Million)
5.) Hostages(1987::$200 Million)
4.) Dictator(2003::$1 Billion)
3.) Hacking(2018::$1 Billion)
2.) Bailout(2008:$700 Billion)
1.) Digital Code(2018:$800+ Billion)
10.) Insider Job
The Dunbar Armored robbery is the largest cash robbery to have occurred in the United States. It occurred in 1997 at the Dunbar Armored facility in Los Angeles, California. The thieves made off with some US$18.9 million ($28.8 million today).
The robbery was masterminded by Allen Pace, who worked for Dunbar as a regional safety inspector. While on the job, Pace had time to photograph and examine the company's Los Angeles armored car depot. He recruited five of his childhood friends, and on the night of Friday, September 12, 1997, Pace used his keys to gain admittance to the facility. Pace had timed the security cameras and determined how they could be avoided. Once inside, they waited within the staff cafeteria, ambushing the guards one by one, who were having a break every night at exactly 12:30 AM
9.) Brute Force
On Jan. 20, 1976, a group associated with Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization exploited the chaos of the country's civil war and broke into the British Bank of the Middle East in Beirut. Instead of using cunning and skill, the robbers used brute force, blasting through a wall the bank shared with a Catholic church. Reportedly with the help of a bunch of Corsican locksmiths, the group then cracked the bank's vault and plundered its contents — anywhere from $20 million to $50 million worth of gold bars, Lebanese and foreign currency, stocks and jewels. Today the loot is valued to be more than three times what it was worth in 1976.
8.) Abduction
The Securitas depot robbery was the largest cash robbery in British history. It took place on the evening of 21 February 2006 from 18:30 GMT until the early hours of 22 February 2006. Several men abducted and threatened the family of the manager, tied up fourteen staff members and stole £53,116,760 in bank notes from a Securitas Cash Management Ltd depot in Vale Road, Tonbridge, Kent.
7.) Underground Tunnel
Banco Central burglary at Fortaleza. The Banco Central burglary at Fortaleza was the theft of about R$160 million from the vault of the Banco Central branch located in Fortaleza, in the state of Ceará, Brazil. It is one of the world's largest heists.
6.) Great Train Robbery
The Great Train Robbery was the robbery of £2.6 million from a Royal Mail train heading from Glasgow to London on the West Coast Main Line in the early hours of 8 August 1963, at Bridego Railway Bridge, Ledburn, near Mentmore in Buckinghamshire, England.
5.) Hostages
Planned by the Italian playboy and famous criminal, Valerio Viccei, this bank heist took place in July of 1987.The mastermind was already implicated in over fifty different bank robberies during his life time.
4.)Dictator
When American-led forces first entered Baghdad in early April 2003, looters had already hit the Central Bank of Iraq, the fortresslike structure housing much of the nation’s treasure, including its foreign currency reserves. Troops found burst pipes and blazing fires, but the looters had been unable to penetrate the bank’s main vault or access its deposits. It turned out, however, that someone had already made a hefty withdrawal from the building — to the tune of around $1 billion, easily making this the largest bank heist in history.
3.) Hacking
For the past five years, a gang of hackers known as Carbanak has been targeting banks around the world, stealing well over $1 billion in total.
According to the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol), the gang targeted financial transfers and ATM networks from late 2013 by using a series of malware attacks called Anunak and Carbanak, before more recently adapting security-testing software called Cobalt Strike into heist-ready malware.
2.) Bailout
The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (Division A of Pub.L. 110–343, 122 Stat. 3765, enacted October 3, 2008), commonly referred to as a bailout of the U.S. financial system, is a law enacted subsequently to the subprime mortgage crisis authorizing the United States Secretary of the Treasury to spend up to $700 billion to purchase distressed assets, especially mortgage-backed securities, and supply cash directly to banks. The funds for purchase of distressed assets were mostly redirected to inject capital into banks and other financial institutions while the Treasury continued to examine the usefulness of targeted asset purchases.
1.)Digital Code
A cryptocurrency (or crypto currency) is a controversial digital asset designed to work as a medium of exchange that uses strong cryptography to secure financial transactions, control the creation of additional units, and verify the transfer of assets. Cryptocurrency is a kind of digital currency, virtual currency or alternative currency. Cryptocurrencies use decentralized control as opposed to centralized electronic money and central banking systems. The decentralized control of each cryptocurrency works through distributed ledger technology, typically a blockchain, that serves as a public financial transaction database.
Bitcoin, first released as open-source software in 2009, is generally considered the first decentralized cryptocurrency. Since then, over 4,000 altcoin (alternative coin) variants of bitcoin have been created.Total market cap as per coinmarketcap reached $800+ Billion on 8th Jan, 2018.
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