The FBI has been leading an international investigation into the February 2016 heist, in which hackers breached Bangladesh Bank's systems and used the SWIFT messaging network to order the transfer of nearly US$1bil (RM4.42bil) from its account at the New York Fed.
MANILA: The heist of US$81mil (RM358.2mil) from the Bangladesh central bank's account at the New York Federal Reserve last year was "state-sponsored", an FBI officer in the Philippines, who has been involved in the investigations, said on Wednesday.
Lamont Siller, the legal attache at the US embassy, did not elaborate but his comments in a speech in Manila are a strong signal that authorities in the United States are close to naming who carried out one of the world's biggest cyber heists.
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