back in Bangladesh,

the workers had now finally got the printer working
and they were sorting through the transfer requests. Panic quickly ensued as they
realized 35 payment orders were made, totalling to almost one billion dollars.
They immediately tried to send a stop payment order to the New York Fed, but it
was a Sunday and there was no one there to respond. By the time New York staff
would return on Monday, it would've surely been too late.Now, little did they know,
they had actually caught a lucky break, because it turned out The automated system
in New York had flagged 30 of the transactions for manual review. By complete luck,
one of the words on the SWIFT order happened to match the name of a shipping company
that had been blacklisted for evading US sanctions against Iran, pure coincidence.
This would prove devastating for the hackers. As $870 million worth of transfers were
now blocked. Later, when staff took a closer look, they noticed several red flags. The
unusually high number of payment instructions, the large transfers to private entities
rather than banks, and the ridiculously large total. At this point, they had to seek
clarification from Bangladesh.And, after getting word of their stop payment order,
the transfers were shut down. It was over, the gig was up. Or was it? Yes, 30 of the
transactions, worth $870 million, would never be seen by hackers,

The rest of the funds would be dispersed throughout a variety of means.