A sophisticated attack on Bangladesh Bank left the world reeling as it became clear that the world's largest bank, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, was powerless to stop all of it. A smart documentary shows how state-sponsored cybercriminals are for hire, says Simon Ings
6 September 2023
Billion Dollar Heist
Daniel Gordon
Available to stream
ON 4 February 2016, after a year of using malware to scrutinise the computer systems of Bangladesh Bank, the country’s central bank, an international criminal group tried to steal $1 billion from it. The bank was a soft target, with no firewall and simple $10 electronic switches connecting it to the SWIFT global payment system used by more than 11,000 financial institutions globally.
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York is the largest in the world, housed in one of…
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