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Banks have security against this sort of thing. They manage it by making actually keeping that money after obtaining it without getting caught really hard. I have no idea how it can be protected against when it's bitcoin. Fiat currency has government buy-in, and government support for loss prevention. Bitcoin not so much. The general anti-government attitude that goes with BTC means there's little incentive for law enforcement to care. (Yes, a server break-in is cybercrime, but so is someone hacking your Wordpress or Facebook accounts, and that's the level of attention it will be paid)
It looks like cryptocurrency brings an incentive to finally take computer security seriously for consumer grade software and hardware. It is the first time something is really at stake apart for intangible qualities such as "privacy" and "intellectual property". It is an interesting and unexpected(?) second-order effect of cryptocurrency.