A printer error first tipped off Bangladesh’s central
bank to one of the biggest cyber heists in recent history, according to a
complaint filed to police that provided new details on the attempted theft of
nearly $1 billion.
Zubair Bin Huda, a joint director of Bangladesh Bank,
found the printer tray empty when he looked on the morning of Feb. 5 for
confirmations of SWIFT financial transactions that are normally printed
automatically overnight. He then tried and failed to print out the messages
manually from the SWIFT system, according to his complaint to police, the first
step needed to start an official investigation.
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