One of history's first hi-tech heist stories may have a low-tech reality

As the chief teller at the Park Avenue branch of the now-defunct Union Dime Savings Bank, Roswell Steffen embezzled over $1.5 million over a three-year period in the early 1970s — roughly the equivalent of $10 million in 2022. Bank employees dipping into the till is a crime as old as the industry itself, but what made...