@Pete

Pete you have a good point.

Crims are able to steal all kinds of stuff fairly easily. When I lives in South Africa some people even stole a few hundred tons of piled up road grit from the side of the road during a long week end.

Stealing a data centre would be easy once you have physical access. A quick paint job and slide it onto a container ship and it is out of territorial waters on its way to Nigeria/wherever within hours. Who needs to go ATM surfing/phishing when you can steal identity/credit card details etc on such a huge scale?