Hackers Steal Bank's Crypto Credentials, But Are Foiled By Their Own Typo (reuters.com)

Posted by timothy on Sunday March 13, 2016 @04:03AM from the proofreading-is-chepa dept.

New submitter tlambert writes: Unknown persons stole Bangladesh Bank transfer credentials for payments via the international banking system, and then proceeded to start moving money to the Philippines and Sri Lanka. A human foiled the plot after ~$80M had been stolen with another $870M stopped, after they noticed the word 'foundation' misspelled in one of the requests. Bangladesh, meanwhile, is blaming the U.S. Federal Reserve for trusting their credentials. (Note: Bangladesh Bank isn't like Bank of America; it's the country's central bank.)

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RIP by Anonymous Coward · 2016-03-13 04:30 · Score: 2, Insightful

A typo the source of an almost $1BILLION mistake? Someone's going to die behind this...
1. Re:RIP by Noah+Haders · 2016-03-13 04:34 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  Maybe they'll be hacked to death by a mob with meat cleavers in public in broad daylight. Oh wait that only happens to bloggers.