Approximately $ 30.8 Million USD from the Central Bank of Russia Successfully hacked Hacker

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Cyber News  - Approximately 418.9 billion dollars from the Central Bank of Russia successfully hacked hackers. A group of hackers is rumoured to have stolen more than the US $ 31 million or about 418.9 billion rupiah. The hacker stole using correspondent accounts in the Russian central bank.

This information quoted by Cyber ​​News from Reuters on Sunday, December 4, 2016. It was reported that the Russian central bank announced the incident that took place on Friday as one of the latest cyber attacks that occurred in financial institutions.

Russian central bank officer Artyom Sychyov said the hackers were actually trying to steal 5 billion rubles or equivalent to 1.05 trillion rupiahs from the bank. However, these hackers only managed to steal more than the US $ 31 million from several accounts in the central bank of Russia.

Sychyov commented on a central bank report stating that the hacker group was trying to break into accounts in the bank by falsifying the identity of a client.

Separately, the Russian government said it had found a plot of foreign spy agencies to sow turmoil in the Russian banking system through coordinated Cybercrime.
It also said that the hacker group also spread false reports in social media by stating the Russian bank will go bankrupt.

Meanwhile, financial regulators around the world have been urging banks that operate today to strengthen cybersecurity. Because financial institutions like banks are so vulnerable to hacking targets and there are always loopholes for hackers and thieves.
Concerns about the onset of cyber attacks in the banking world have started since last February. That is when the unknown hackers, they managed to steal funds of US $ 81 million (1.06 trillion rupiahs). They stole from the central bank of Bangladesh deposited in the New York Fed.

Until now, law enforcement agencies around the world are still hunting for criminals behind this hack. This account breakdown is using a wire-transfer request sent via a SWIFT bank network message.

Wire transfer is a means of payment of transfer money that can be done between the Bank of different countries. Condition it must fill the swift code. For example, transfer from Vietnamese bank to bank Mandiri (Indonesia). One of the advantages of this transfer of money received automatically converted in the recipient's local currency.