Bangladesh heist perpetrators may never be identified: ex US official

Commuters pass by the front of the Bangladesh central bank building in Dhaka March 8, 2016. REUTERS/Ashikur Rahman/File Photo

SINGAPORE: A former top US intelligence official on cybersecurity has warned that government investigators may never be able to ascertain who carried out a cyberheist that led to the theft of US$81mil (RM330.29mil) from Bangladesh’s central bank in February. 

Sean Kanuck, who was the most senior official in charge of cybersecurity at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence for five years until mid-May, told Reuters that there had been no official determination on who committed the cyber heist, one of the biggest ever.