heists
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Van Gogh Painting Stolen Amid Coronavirus Shutdown, Museum Director ‘Incredibly Pissed’
On Monday, a Dutch museum announced that a painting by Vincent Van Gogh was missing after thieves broke into the building in an early-morning raid. Lentetuin, painted by Van Gogh in the spring of 1884, was on loan to the Singer Laren museum, which closed its doors earlier this month due to the risks of…
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Rat Dies Doing What It Loved: Breaking Into An ATM And Gorging Itself On Nearly $24,000 In Cash
Indian rupees in a 2016 stock photo.Photo: AP There’s that old adage about dogs chasing cars, not knowing what they’d do if they caught one. Well, a rat in Assam state, India knew exactly what it wanted to do when it broke into an ATM earlier this month, and that was feasting on money until…
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$40 Million In Ether Stolen As People Refuse To Learn Their Lesson About Cryptocurrencies
Photo: BTC Keychain / Flickr Unknown hackers made off with an estimated $40 million in hot cryptocurrency Ether, one of the most popular of the innumerable successors to Bitcoin, this week.
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How To Pull Off The Perfect Bank Heist
In 2011, architect Armin Blasbichler asked his 21 architecture students at the University of Innsbruck to plan bank heists, because, as he says, “architects have a specific view on buildings and organisational structures — on how things relate together, weak points and strong points.”