heist
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In Grand Theft Auto 5, heist mastermind Lester uses a walking stick and a wheelchair.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026
Within a few hours of the hack, around half of the stolen funds were frozen as stablecoin issuers like Tether and Circle blacklisted wallets associated with the heist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2026
Binance said Saturday that it has set aside more than $6.34 billion in company funds to cover losses in the hack, which is thought to be the biggest-ever crypto heist.
From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026
Plus, a big upset in Big Law and the bitcoin heist at Binance.
From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2026
Right now he was posing as the Egyptian detective assigned to gather information about the museum heist the chameleon himself had pulled off in the first chapter.
From "A Tangle of Knots" by Lisa Graff
In March, North Korea denied allegations that it was behind global cyber heists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
From the rapidly rising and falling values of Bitcoin to high-profile heists like the hacking of Binance, the world of cryptocurrencies is often in the headlines.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
Recent high-profile museum heists beg the question: What can be done to ensure your personal collection doesn’t meet the same fate?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
In one of the NBA’s all-time heists, Pelinka brought the then-25-year-old Slovenian superstar to L.A. from the Dallas Mavericks in exchange for essentially an aging and injury-prone Anthony Davis and just one first-round draft pick.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2026
Art heists are almost always the work of amateurs, and there’s nothing dashing or romantic about these thieves.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
Basically, the big internet platforms gobble up news outlets’ products and work without paying for it and build their own ad programs around the heisted articles.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2024
The saga of Kelly’s heisted honeybees would rattle the beekeeper and the clients who sought his specially bred bees.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 13, 2021
The interface for the Archive looks like a set of old file cabinets that might have been heisted from an old-time bail bondsman’s office.
From New York Times ● Aug. 20, 2019
During the latter stages of the LP’s production, the Beatles famously heisted one of EMI Studios’ experimental eight-track machines and produced several tracks with that more expansive sound palette.
From Salon ● Nov. 9, 2018
The lid was heisted, and mighty well it was.
From Successful Recitations by Alfred H. (Alfred Henry) Miles
In fact, heisting Manhattan turns out to be less farfetched than it sounds.
From Time Magazine Archive
The instrumental track "You Wish" beautifully invokes the spirit of Hendrix's "All Along The Watchtower" without ever wholesale heisting the original.
From Time Magazine Archive
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