Hackers stole $7.6m from Russian bank via SWIFT

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Hackers stole $7.6m from Russian bank via SWIFT

Digital heists becoming more frequent.

Unknown hackers stole 339.5 million roubles (A$7.6 million) in an attack on the SWIFT international payments messaging system in Russia last year, the Russian central bank has revealed. The disclosure, buried at the bottom of a central bank report on digital thefts at Russian banks, is the ...

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