If someone spent decades exploiting vulnerabilities to the point where they made a billion dollars shuttering hundreds of healthy companies and costing thousand

If someone spent decades exploiting vulnerabilities to the point where they made a billion dollars shuttering hundreds of healthy companies and costing thousands of people their jobs, that person would either be very quiet about it or in jail, most likely the latter. And as a security person, I don't think that's a bad thing. We have laws around these kinds of issues specifically because having the raw technical capability to ruin lives should not be viewed as tantamount to permission to do so. So should it be in the financial realm.