March 7 2016
Bangladesh’s central bank said on Monday its account with the US Federal Reserve Bank of New York had been hacked and money had been stolen from it, but that it had recovered some of the funds. The theft occurred February 5th, but officials are just now making public the size of the theft.
Bangladesh Bank said it had traced some of the money to the Philippines and was working with anti-money laundering authorities there.
However, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York denied that its payments systems were breached:
“To date, there is no evidence of any attempt to penetrate Federal Reserve systems in connection with the payments in question, and there is no evidence that any Fed systems were compromised,” said New York Fed spokeswoman Andrea Priest in response to queries about the claim.