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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And they would have walked away with $1 billion instead of $81 million.
Now, North Korea's hackers had gone to great lengths to clean up after themselves, going as far as to hack the bank printer responsible for printing out every Swift transfer.
They'd zeroed out every record of their transactions.
It was only when they came back to work on Sunday and realized their books weren't balancing that they saw this malfunctioning printer wasn't a glitch at all.
It was the clue.
They'd been robbed.
They tried to reach out to the Fed, but it's the weekend there at the Fed, right?
And so the Fed wasn't responding.
And the Bank of Bangladesh was stuck.
And it wasn't until Monday that they began to communicate with the Fed.
And the Fed was like, look, we transferred out $81 million, but we keep repeating you have errors on these other 30 for close to a billion.
And the Bank of Bangladesh employees are like, what are you talking about?
We never transferred any of this money.
By the time anyone realized their money had been siphoned off to the Philippines and employees start feverishly calling their contacts in Manila, no one picks up.
Monday in the Philippines was Lunar New Year.
It was a holiday for the Philippines.
And so they weren't there.
They couldn't get in touch with the bank in the Philippines.
And so you can see now this choice of starting on February 4th
Thursday evening through the weekend and then into that Monday was not just some random date that they had chose because they were ready.
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