Infamous bank robber Slick Willie Sutton is said to have said that he robbed banks “because that’s where the money is.” Sutton later denied having made that exact statement, but there’s no doubt that he and others of his ilk followed that simple logic. In the 21st century, though, they face competition from a new type of thief: those who hack into banks’ data troves for the purposes of stealing money – or, in some cases, with other goals in mind.
