Unknown hackers stole 339.5 million roubles ($6 million) from a Russian bank last year in an attack using the SWIFT international payments messaging system, the Russian central bank said on Friday.
The disclosure, buried at the bottom of a central bank report on digital thefts in the Russian banking sector, is the latest in a string of attempted and successful cyberheists using fraudulent wire-transfer requests.
The central bank said it had been sent information about "one successful attack on the work place of a SWIFT system operator."