Big heist: Bangladesh's central bank confirmed that cybercriminals tried to withdraw US$951mil (RM3.9bil) from its US bank account.
DHAKA: Bangladesh's central bank has ended a contract with US cybersecurity firm FireEye to investigate February's online theft of US$81mil (RM332.25mil), turning down a proposal to extend the agreement, a senior official said.
More than four months after hackers broke into the computer systems of Bangladesh Bank and transferred money from its account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, investigators in Bangladesh and the United States are still trying to identify them.
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