Nicole Perlroth
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1,851 appearances
14 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 14 Jul
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The requests were to transfer that money to accounts they'd set up in Sri Lanka and the Philippines.
Those countries were chosen for their lax regs.
But the Philippines in particular had something else going for it.
Casinos.
The DPRK's preferred money laundering machine.
So late that Thursday, February 4th, bank employees are kicking off their weekend in Bangladesh.
And meanwhile, the hackers start sending their orders to the New York Fed over SWIFT.
this is 10 a.m.
to 11.30 a.m.
in the morning in New York, began to receive all of these orders.
What's wild is the hackers hit a snag.
Their banking info is incomplete.
So the New York Fed replies via Swift to Bangladesh Bank, asking them to clean up their bank details.
Remember, it's now the weekend in Bangladesh.
But because the hackers are inside the system, they were actually able to correct these mistakes.
They actually missed one.
They forgot one as they were doing their work.
And then we sent them back across again.
And four transactions began to post all to Philippines, all to four different accounts for a total of $81 million.
Meanwhile, hackers are waiting for the rest of their $1 billion to move.
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