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
News of the hacking attack, which is thought to be the biggest ever crypto heist, caused the prices of most major cryptocurrencies to fall sharply.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026
Plus, a big upset in Big Law and the bitcoin heist at Binance.
From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2026
The hack is believed to be the largest in history, eclipsing the record of a $1.5bn heist on the Bybit exchange in 2025.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026
His logic was: The Mona Lisa heist was a refined crime.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
Cryptocurrency heists have become North Korea’s most lucrative and vital revenue stream, replacing exports of coal and textiles that have been crippled by global sanctions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
A spate of heists at French museums, including at the Louvre, has highlighted inadequate security in some cases and led to questions about whether criminal gangs see them as soft targets.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
The incident is the latest in a string of museum heists across Europe that have led to a growing number of priceless works disappearing from public view.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
Past heists relied more on novel malware and identity fraud, but the April 1 campaign leaned heavily on actual human interaction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026
She wasn’t investigating the jewelry heists and grave robbing I’d read about in the newspapers.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
The culprit: the big internet and social media platforms that grab news outlets’ work without paying for it and build their own ad programs around the heisted articles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 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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