Inside Job? How One Employee’s Alleged Betrayal Led to a $140 Million Central Bank Hack
Hold onto your hats, because it turns out the hackers didn’t need to scale the walls of a digital fortress to get in. Nope! They just bought the login credentials of an employee for a bargain price of $2,700. Yes, you heard that right—two thousand seven hundred bucks! That’s less than a year’s worth of your Netflix subscription, but enough to bypass a sophisticated security system and swipe 800 million Brazilian reais from the reserve accounts of six banks. Talk about bargain hunting! 🤑