Hackers stole $6 million in attack on SWIFT system, Russian central bank says

  16 February 2018    Read: 2190
Hackers stole $6 million in attack on SWIFT system, Russian central bank says
Unknown hackers stole 339.5 million rubles ($6 million) in an attack on the SWIFT international payments messaging system in Russia last year, the Russian central bank said on Friday, Reuters reported.

The disclosure, buried at the bottom of a central bank report on digital thefts at Russian banks, is the latest in a string of attempted and successful cyber heists using fraudulent wire-transfer requests.

The central bank said it had been sent information about ”one successful attack on the workplace of a SWIFT system operator.


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