The nature of the banking system allowed much of that to be blocked/retrieved, though.
This was an exchange, not a bank. I'm sure that plenty of banks and stock/forex exchanges have been hacked, but trades can be reversed, money reimbursed by the FDIC, etc.
Seems like hacks do occur, often for customer info, but looks like money is sometimes stolen, considering the number of banks compared to BTC exchanges I'm guessing hacks are relatively more frequent in the crypto-space, especially considering how much money can be stolen and more easily moved.
I can’t remember seeing Schwab or Fidelity (or any others) hacked. At least not like this.
I think crypto "banks" attract more attackers because it's relatively easy to get away with it.
That is true, and its also a lot easier to know it happened. Banks invest a large amount of money on security, clearly they must get hacked all the time, but when it happens, we as consumers don't know about it.