"While cryptocurrency exchanges are obvious targets for hackers, this is the first hack of this scale in quite some time. Ever since the infamous Mt Gox hack of 2013, exchanges have been "relatively" safe."

Sorry, but this is not true with first hack of this scale since MT Gox. Coincheck lost more then 500 Million USD during the hack last months and try to refund at least a big part of it. I wrote about it some weeks before: https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@cantdecide/coincheck-refunds-customers-after-more-then-500-million-usd-got-stolen