Security Researcher Goes Missing After Investigating Bangladesh Bank Cyber-Heist (softpedia.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Tanvir Hassan Zoha, 34, security researcher, has gone missing just days after accusing Bangladesh's central bank officials of negligence, which facilitated the theft of over $81 million from the country's oversea accounts (hackers tried to steal $1 billion, but a typo stopped them). Zoha was apparently kidnapped this Wednesday after a jeep pulled over in front of his rickshaw. The friend that was with him was released hours later unharmed. When trying to contact police, family members were re-routed between police stations, and eventually gave up, contacting the media.

Comments

Re:Extraordinary rendition

[Falconhell]

Heading? we have been there for years.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...

Re:Not very secure

[whoever57]

You would think that a security researcher would travel in a more secure way than by rickshaw.

You haven't been to India have you?

It was an auto-rickshaw, known elsewhere as a tuk-tuk.

Re:Not very secure

[radicimo]

To be precise, it was a "CNG auto-rickshaw" ... doubt he felt he was in any danger until the moment they whisked him off. From the run-around his family got by the local constabulary, it sounds as if the local police are part of the rendition, if no more than serving as an obstruction for someone else.