An unknown hacker or hackers stole $6 million from a Russian bank in 2017 through the SWIFT international payments system, the Russian central bank said according a report by Reuters today.
The Central Bank of Russia said that it had received information about “one successful attack on the work place of a SWIFT system operator” within a report on digital thefts in Russian banks, according to Reuters.
A spokesman for Russia’s central bank declined to name which specific bank had been the victim of the attack. In its own statement to the publication, SWIFT stated that its own systems have not been compromised by hackers.
Read more at Reuters and PYMNTs.
To learn more about cybersecurity and international payments, join us on March 5-6, 2018 at the Parc 55 in San Francisco for Bank Innovation 2018. Click here to register.