> In comparison if an attacker gets a credit card that card could be disabled and or have transactions cancelled. That's why attackers never go after credit ca

> In comparison if an attacker gets a credit card that card could be disabled and or have transactions cancelled. That's why attackers never go after credit card numbers, right? I think non-revertible payments do not really make a big difference to attackers, it just makes value extraction more efficient. Some percentage of fraudulent transactions will always make it through. So long as the funds accessible to the attacker are sufficiently large, it's still a juicy target. 10% of 200 megadollars is still 20 megadollars. I agree with @capableweb2. They're an attractive target because they are a financial company with control over lots of value, not because of anything to do with cryptocurrencies in particular.