I just skipped through the article, it seems it was 500 million in NEM tokens, so whoever made that list did not have a clue what he is doing.

Yea, Cryptopia.co.nz if i remember right. With a recuperation process so complicated that i ended up writing off the loss and not looking back rather than trying to remember the different balances on the account i had several years ago. May they all rot in hell and get vaccinated to a slow death.