How often do money transfers specifically exploit text messages synced to computer?

I'm just wondering how common this is. A client of mine had a lot of money stolen because the hackers were remotely accessing their computer, got into their financial website, and were able to confirm a very large money transfer using text messages that Microsoft phone link was copying to the windows 11 desktop. And then they were deleting the incoming texts (through the computer) so that the victim cannot see this traffic.

Pretty much all my clients that use Apple products have the same feature enabled in iMessage.

I don't know how the remote access was initiated, but apparently they were using screenconnect client.

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