The Swift code bank logo is displayed on an iPhone 6s on top of Euro banknotes in this file illustration photo January 26, 2016. In February 2013, the Philippines was up against a deadline to amend its Anti-Money Laundering Act and get itself off the 'grey list' of a global watchdog, and lawmakers were bickering over whether to include casinos under the legislation. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/Files
WASHINGTON: Hackers have attacked a bank by gaining access to the world’s largest financial messaging system, used to move billions of dollars a day, in a second raid months after a multi-million dollar heist at the Bangladesh central bank, US media reported.
The attack into internal bank systems involving SWIFT – the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication – shows evidence of a wide-ranging attempt to gain access to the system, the network said in a statement due to be released on May 13, the New York Times and Wall Street Journal reported.
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