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the investigation into the computer case from early February through which hackers have managed to steal $ 81 million to the Central Bank of Bangladesh is ongoing. But in the meantime its findings, US officials, Bangladesh and those of the Swift interbank network accuse each other of failure to explain the hacking
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Monday, May 9, the head of the division of the Bangladeshi police charged investigation indicated that security holes were created when Swift came technicians install new equipment. The Swift network, used in particular to make transfers, connects them thousands of banks. The hackers managed to penetrate the equipment used by the Bangladesh central bank to insert transfer orders in the system.
“We found loopholes” said responsible in an interview with Reuters. Assertions confirmed to the news agency by an anonymous source within the central bank, indicating that the Swift employees did not comply with certain security procedures, leaving a door that hackers were able to borrow for spending orders transfer to the bank’s name. According to the Bangladeshi police, the new equipment installed by Swift operated a network of 5,000 bank’s other Internet-connected computers, making this material very sensitive, more easily accessible to hackers operating remotely.
joint work begins in Basel
Soon after, Swift defended himself in a statement, saying the accusations “baseless” and returning to the bank Central Bangladeshi “system of its security responsibility” . In early March, an internal document to the Bangladesh central bank already accused the Federal Reserve of New York negligence and raised the possibility of legal action.
The various parties to the investigation that takes place simultaneously in several countries had the opportunity to flatten their differences at a meeting on Tuesday in Basel. A soothing statement, ensuring that “all parties” was “committed” “recover the funds and to bring the perpetrators to justice” is was issued after the meeting.
Finally, the Wall Street Journal found based on anonymous sources that FBI investigators had concluded that pirates had received internal complicity in the Bangladeshi bank. The Federal Police, which investigates because the account of the Bangladesh central bank robbed was home to the New York branch of the Federal Bank, estimates that at least one employee is involved. An internal complicity would be consistent with the first elements of the investigation: the pirates had a fairly detailed knowledge of the inner workings of the bank, a mole could bring them. Neither the bank nor the Bangladesh Federal Bank of New York commented on the information.
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