Tag: Russian Central Bank

Hackers stole $6 million in attack on SWIFT system, Russian Central Bank says

Feb 16, 2018

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by

Ediri Oyibo

in Banking, Technology, World

Unknown hackers stole 339.5 million rubles (six million dollars) in an attack on the SWIFT international payments messaging system in Russia last year, the Russian Central Bank said on Friday. 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…