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00:0081 million dollars stolen in a single night and no one heard a gunshot february 2016 deep inside
00:08the central bank of bangladesh silent hackers were already inside the system not in the building but
00:14in the wires they studied it for months they watched they waited then at the perfect moment
00:19they struck using stolen bank credentials the attackers sent secret transfer requests through
00:25the global swift network 35 requests almost 1 billion dollars money meant for a nation suddenly
00:33moving toward fake accounts in the philippines and sri lanka most of the transfers were stopped by
00:38accident a single spelling mistake foundation misspelled as foundation triggered suspicion
00:44but five transfers went through 81 million dollars vanished when employees returned after the weekend
00:51the money was gone panic spread phones rang non-stop how could the country's central bank be hacked so
00:58easily investigators later traced the attack to sophisticated cyber criminals possibly linked to
01:04north korea but the stolen money most of it was never recovered no masks no weapons just keyboards in
01:12the dark and somewhere in the world someone is still spending money that was never theirs
01:17there's
01:17there's
01:17You
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