COLOMBO: When Hagoda Gamage Shalika Perera, a small Sri Lankan businesswoman, got a deposit of US$20mil (RM77.74mil) in her account last month, she said the funds were expected but had no idea they were stolen from Bangladesh's central bank in one of the largest cyber heists in history.
Unknown hackers breached Bangladesh Bank's systems between Feb 4 and Feb 5 and tried to steal nearly US$1bil (RM3.88bil) from its account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
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