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Thursday, March 10, 2016

How a hacker's typo helped stop a billion dollar bank heist | Reuters

How a hacker's typo helped stop a billion dollar bank heist | Reuters: "
Commuters pass by the front of the Bangladesh central bank building in Dhaka March 8, 2016.
REUTERS/ASHIKUR RAHMAN
A spelling mistake in an online bank transfer instruction helped prevent a nearly $1 billion heist last month involving the Bangladesh central bank and the New York Fed, banking officials said.

Unknown hackers still managed to get away with about $80 million, one of the largest known bank thefts in history."



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