Big heist: Bangladesh's central bank confirmed that cybercriminals tried to withdraw US$951mil (RM3.9bil) from its US bank account.
DHAKA: Bangladesh central bank officials will hold a meeting with the New York Federal Reserve next month to try and speed up efforts to recover US$81mil (RM326.40mil) stolen by hackers from its account at the Fed, officials in Dhaka said.
More than four months after the hackers broke into the computer systems of Bangladesh Bank and transferred money into bank accounts in Philippines using the SWIFT payment network, there is no breakthrough yet in investigations.
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