According to the central bank, in the year 2017, 33 million rubles ($ 60 million) of dollars were taken from Russia by cyber attack in the transactions service messaging app swift of banks worldwide.
On Friday, the Russian Central Bank said that information about a successful attack on an operator of Swift has been sent to them.
"33 million rubles were stolen due to unauthorized activities."
The Reuters report said that the central bank has refused to divulge any further details.
In the beginning of February 2016, sending out 35 fake messages through swift messaging system, trying to remove one billion dollars in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Five of these messages cost $ 810 million in the Philippines's Rizal Commercial Bank. And another order sent to Sri Lanka is $ 2 million.
The money sent to Sri Lanka is prevented until it is deposited in the account, but most of the money spent on the Philippines bank goes to the gambling table instead of local currency.
Though some of the money was recovered, most of the money was not found yet.
Asked about the money laundering of Russian central bank, Swift spokesman Natasha De Terren said they did not comment on specific individuals or organizations.
"When we are complained about potential fraud, we propose to help our victims to help protect their environment."
A spokesman for the Russian Central Bank has quoted the quote of their Security Department Deputy Chief of Artemische Chechev. Saarcov said hackers have withdrawn that money, and "it can be very easy when they take control of a computer."
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