Serious complaints were made today by the Bangladesh Bank, according to which hackers have violated their US Federal Reserve account and stole a large sum of money.
The complaints were made by its executives Bangladesh Bank reporting that bank employees noticed that a large comeye of their funds held at the US Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Over 250 foreigners have accounts at the Federal Reserve Bank branch in New York banks, governments, and large financial institutions, because of the high-end bank security measures.
Bangladeshi central bank officials refused to report the exact amount they were stolen, but so far they have been able to recover some of them after cooperating with local authorities specializing in money laundering.
However, at the opposite of the news, a Federal Reserve spokesman in a statement to Reuters, refused to recognize the incident, saying that their bank did not find any sign of invasion.
Although the Federal Reserve Bank of New York is considered a model for bank physical and electronic security, that branch was previously hacked online in 2012, when British hacker Lauri Love managed to use SQL injections and ColdFusion vulnerabilities to gain access to any of the bank's details. British authorities finally arrested Love in October 2013.
