Online robbery exposure: Ecuador Bank stolen $ 9 million-banks, hack-IT information
A nondescript suit, brings together with the Central Bank of Bangladesh is much the same $ 81 million cases of theft. The lawsuit says last year Ecuador Bank cyber criminals stole about $ 9 million. It also shows global banker does not share crime information, to prevent the recurrence of such cases.
Earlier this month, Viet Nam pioneer Bank says foiled in 2015, the fourth quarter trying to use false SWIFT (society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) information hacked, stolen Bank $ 1.1 million, the modus operandi is similar to Bangladesh Bank robbery. In February this year, hacking Bangladesh Bank accounts at the Federal Reserve Bank in New York, resulting in theft of $ 81 million, the biggest online theft case in history.
According to the Wall Street Journal, according to court documents, in January 2015, the Ecuador bank robberies, a hacker managed to steal the Bank's SWIFT code, funds transferred to another bank.
SWIFT spokeswoman Natasha de Teran said on Thursday that they were not privy to the hacking incident, "if such fraud cases involving our products and services, we require customers to inform, so that we can inform other customers, and provide them with support ... ... We have been in contact with the Bank, to obtain more information. We will also alert customers, they have an obligation to provide such information, and we shared. ”
Ecuador Bank Banco del Austro was submitted to the Federal Court in New York this year in a suit, denounced Wells Fargo (Wells Fargo & Co.) No more than 10 transfer deal in January 2015 notes "danger signals" (red flags), thus failing to stop burglars turn away about $ 12 million, most of which were transmitted to the banks in Hong Kong.
Litigation cases show, Banco del Austro banks could recover about $ 2.8 million were stolen, and initiated proceedings in Hong Kong, hoping to recover more. Court documents do not explain, this amount was what happened after their return to Hong Kong. An estimated $ 1.5 million was transferred to the United States in Los Angeles to an account, and $ 1 million was transferred to a bank in Dubai.
Court documents also show that Wells Fargo's lawyers had urged the judge to reject the suit, saying Ecuador Bank misplaced at the request of, once they were adopted by the financial industry, will give strong bank account transfers with unrealistic expectations.
It is not clear, Ecuador Bank theft case in Bangladesh and Viet Nam's case whether there is a connection. But the modus operandi is very similar in these cases, thieves are logged on through a customer address SWIFT network so as to enter the banking system; and in order to avoid being asked questions relating to specific transfer transactions, time of crime are also selected bank staff after work.
一桩网络大劫案曝光：厄瓜多尔银行被盗走900万美元 - 银行,黑客 - IT资讯
一宗毫不起眼的诉讼，引出了一起与孟加拉国央行被窃8100万美元颇为相似的案件。诉讼称，去年厄瓜多尔一家银行被网络罪犯盗走大约900万美元。这也显示出，全球的银行人士并未共享犯罪信息，来阻止此类案件的反复发生。
本月早些时候，越南先锋银行表示，曾于2015年第四季度挫败一起试图利用虚假SWIFT（环球同业银行金融电讯协会）信息、盗走银行110万美元的黑客攻击，其作案手法与孟加拉国央行被盗案相似。今年2月，黑客入侵孟加拉国央行在纽约联邦储备银行的账户，最终导致8100万美元失窃，为有史以来规模最大的网络盗窃案。
据《华尔街日报》报道，法庭文件显示，在2015年1月的这起厄瓜多尔银行劫案中，黑客设法盗取了该行的SWIFT密码，从而转走了另一家银行的资金。
SWIFT发言人Natasha de Teran周四称，他们对这起黑客事件毫不知情，“如果此类欺诈案件涉及我们的产品和服务，我们需要客户告知，这样我们可以通知其他客户，并为他们提供支持……我们一直在和这家银行联系，以获取更多信息。我们也将提醒客户，他们有义务将此类信息和我们共享。”
厄瓜多尔银行Banco del Austro今年向纽约联邦法庭提交了一起诉讼，谴责富国银行(Wells Fargo & Co.)没有在2015年1月的十几笔转账交易中注意到“危险信号”（red flags），以致未能及时阻止窃贼转走了约1200万美元，其中大部分都转至了香港的银行。
诉讼案件显示，Banco del Austro银行能追回大约280万美元的被盗款，并在香港启动了法律程序，希望能追回更多。法庭文件并未解释，这笔款项在被转至香港后又发生了什么。另有大约150万美元被转至美国洛杉矶的一个账户，还有100万美元被转至了迪拜一家银行。
法庭文件还显示，富国银行的律师已敦促法官否决这起诉讼，称厄瓜多尔银行的要求错位，一旦被金融业采纳，将会给银行账户转账强加上不切实际的期望。
目前尚不清楚，厄瓜多尔银行的这起网络盗窃案和孟加拉国以及越南的案件是否有联系。但是这几起案件的作案手法极为相似，窃贼都是通过客户地址登录SWIFT网络从而进入银行系统；而且为了避免被询问有关具体转账交易的问题，作案时间也都选在银行工作人员下班后。