NewsSri Lankan police have arrested two men for allegedly helping international criminals who hacked into computers at a Taiwan bank and stole millions of dollars, an official said Sunday. "We are looking at some $1.3 million that had come into three accounts in Sri Lanka," the official involved with the investigation told AFP, asking not to be named. Police in Sri Lanka did not disclose the name of the affected bank in Taiwan or the sum said to have been stolen, but a Sri Lankan media report said tens of millions of dollars had been wired out of the island. Taiwanese media quoted the bank as saying that it detected irregularities in its SWIFT system and there were suspicious transactions starting Thursday to Sri Lanka, Cambodia and the United States. Sri Lankan police investigated a similar theft in February last year when hackers broke into the computer system of the Bangladesh central bank and transferred $20 million of stolen money to a Sri Lankan businesswoman.

Source: Sunday Times October 09, 2017 04:18 UTC