Bangladesh unravels spectacular cyber thriller

dhaka - If a screenplay knew cybercriminals converted less than 71 million euros to wrest the central bank of Bangladesh. The researchers have been awarded the hunt for those responsible for the detection of twenty foreigners. Their names and nationalities later revealed, according to the head of the Public Prosecutor of the Asian country.

The police came to the perpetrators on the track including during extensive studies in Sri Lanka and the Philippines.

The hackers had big plans for the central bank in Dhaka. They were out on the theft of nearly 900 million euros from the account of the bank at the Federal Reserve Bank in New York, in the United States. Although the Fed stopped the transactions, there appeared already 71 million diverted to the Philippines.

Following the spectacular theft, banks all over the world checked their protection against cyber theft.