Nicole Perlroth
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1,851 appearances
14 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 14 Jul
Nicole Perlroth’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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In Ecuador, they broke into the Banco del Austro and started sending swift messages to Wells Fargo in San Francisco.
They tricked the bank into transferring more than $12 million to accounts they'd set up in Hong Kong.
The banks wouldn't connect the dots until much later.
But that was just their dry run.
What they pulled off next at Bangladesh Bank required Ocean's Eleven-level coordination.
Bank holidays mapped to the hour.
Fake accounts opened overseas.
Money launderers lined up in advance.
And by the time the operation began, North Korea wasn't just hacking a bank.
They were running a global financial heist.
The attack happens on February 4th, 2016.
And this is not a random date, okay?
This date was chosen very meticulously because February 4th, 2016 was a Thursday in Bangladesh, all right?
And they started on this Thursday night because in Bangladesh, their weekend is Friday and Saturday in the Western world.
And so the employees were all gone.
They chose these dates like, you know, a SEAL Team 6 would go in and attack someplace on a moonless night.
They were choosing a very specific time.
And when they were in there at 8.36 p.m., they logged into the SWIFT system using their bypass, and they sent 36 orders to the New York Fed.
The Bank of Bangladesh held the bulk of its U.S.
currency at the New York Fed, so the hackers start sending Fed orders over Swift, totaling $951 million, almost the entire contents of the bank's New York Fed account.
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