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Poor English, hackers didn't steal 1 billion dollars

  

American advanced anti DDoS server On March 15, it was reported that a group of hackers had invaded the banking system of Bangladesh in February, preparing to commit a shocking crime. Their plan is to steal all the 1 billion yuan in the bank account of the Federal Reserve of the United States.

The hacker adopted the mode of "mouse moving", and transferred 20 million dollars to overseas accounts each time. The first four transfers were carried out seamlessly, and the hackers had stolen 80 million dollars by this time. But the problem is the fifth time. They originally wanted to transfer 20 million yuan to the Sri Lanka Foundation, but perhaps because their English level was too limited, they actually put the foundation "Foundation" into "Fandation".

Before the money arrived in Sri Lanka, it had to go through a series of bank systems. When they arrived at Deutsche Bank, the bank alarm system detected the error, but found that it was too late, and they had already sent the money to the next bank: Pan Asian Bank. When Deutsche Bank contacted Pan Asian Bank in an emergency, fortunately, they had not transferred the money to Sri Lanka. However, the Pan Asian Bank did not notice such a stupid spelling mistake, but was wondering why a large sum of money would enter Sri Lanka. In short, the transaction was finally reviewed, which led to the whole case. Because of their low-level spelling mistakes, their plot went bankrupt.

The loss of this case was reduced from the expected $1 billion to $80 million, and most of the funds were also returned.

At present, the banks involved are accusing each other of management omissions, and the hackers who have cried out for several rounds are expected to hire an English tutor at a high salary.