The question is.... Why has this been swept under the carpet for months?
It wasn't. They notified folks whose accounts were compromised and dealt with it. The only new thing is that Reuters decided to (again) make it 'news'. Must be a slow week for them?
or probably just a futile attempt at FUD?
Fud or just tending to make out some issues just to make out some attention in the market but i dont really believe that they had been making things just because they arent making that much? I dont think so.
Hacks could happen whether inside job or totally external attacks because we know that in reality that nothing is unhackable on this world so expect the unexpected.
Thing here is that these platforms/services would able to handle these things up.