HANOI: Cybercriminals unsuccessfully tried to send €1.2mil (RM5.46mil) from a Vietnamese bank to a Slovenian bank via the SWIFT network last December, but there have been no other cases of fraudulent transfers in Vietnam, a top central bank official said.
Le Manh Hung, head of the State Bank of Vietnam's (SBV) Information Technology Department, told Reuters the Dec 8 transfer was the only attempt to steal funds detected by Tien Phong Bank (TPBank).
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