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Instead he sloughs off the story as overzealous publicity on the part of the DA, and intimates that the amount was barely a drop in the bucket:

Anyone would be a little snippy after falling victim to identity theft — but leave it to Mayor Bloomberg to take it to a new level.

When asked yesterday about an alleged attempt to steal $450,000 from his personal account, the mayor took a shot at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, which is handling the case.

“No. 1, it was a few months ago,” he snipped. “Why the district attorney chose to put it out now? It must have been a quiet news cycle.”

For the record, the DA’s office put out its press release on Tuesday, the first day one of the suspects appeared in court.

Bloomberg also scoffed at the suspects, whose alleged half-million-dollar theft attempt represents a tiny portion of his estimated $13.6 billion fortune.

“I don’t think they ever got any money,” he said. “Some guy walks in with a check from Bloomberg for $450,000, and he wants to take it all in $100 bills. Fortunately, the banks are a little smarter than that.”