Cybercriminals take 81 million dollars from the Central Bank of Bangladesh – Diario La Page El Salvador

cyber thieves managed to steal $ 81 million from an account of the Federal Reserve of New York deposited in the Central Bank of Bangladesh and which the president of that entity submitted his resignation.

According to the Spanish daily El País, the criminals were intended to raise 951 million dollars, was awarded to a group of hackers unidentified, who entered into the computer system of the Bangladeshi central bank.

the account at the Fed central bank Bangladeshi validated between 4 and 6 February transfers to Asian countries worth 101 million dollars, 81 million of them even outside their control accounts Philippines or channeled through casinos.

the plot was uncovered in late February by a Philippine newspaper and the Bangladesh Bank initially blamed the capital flight to foreign entities.

However, both the Federal Reserve and the company financial messaging SWIFT responded that their systems were not compromised and that the transfers were made based on the standard authentication protocols.

police officials and computer experts in Bangladesh now investigating whether it was only an external cyber attack or if the pirates were using the credentials of the central bank with some type of internal collaboration.

The Finance Minister Abul MA Muhith, described Sunday as “very incompetent” performance of Bangladesh Bank and announced action against an agency that manages more than 28,000 million dollars in foreign currency in different banks on the planet.

the senator in charge of the investigation of Manila, the Philippine capital, said that about half of the stolen money, about 30 million, was paid in cash to a man of Chinese ethnicity.

Rahman, who had been absent until now because they travel in India, said in his first statement to the press was silent for his country, “all I did was in the “interest of the country”, “did not want the incident created panic in the banking sector.”

the resignation of Rahman, who has equated hacking “a terrorist attack “was accepted by the Prime Minister of the country, Sheikh Hasina.

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