DHAKA/NEW YORK: Jupiter. That single word, by a stroke of luck, helped stop the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from paying nearly US$1bil (RM4.05bil) to the cybercriminals behind a notorious bank heist earlier this year, according to sources familiar with the incident.
When hackers broke into the computers of Bangladesh's central bank in February and sent fake payment orders, the Fed was tricked into paying out US$101mil (RM409.73mil). But the losses could have been much higher had the name Jupiter not formed part of the address of a Philippines bank where the hackers sought to send hundreds of millions of dollars more.