a group of men entered the Jupiter Street branch of the RCBC Bank
just outside Manila, and opened four bank accounts with just $500 inside. The men then left, never to return.
With their accounts left seemingly abandoned. Now, returning to Bangladesh, the country is becoming one of the
fastest growing economies in the world. Their central bank sat in the financial district of the capital, Dhaka,
a chaotic city, with almost 20 million people. But, despite all this rapid growth, it was a nation that could
ill afford to lose one billion dollars of taxpayers' money. Fast-forward, January 2016, a month before the
incident. An employee at the Bangladesh Bank was checking his mail at work. Now, nothing seemed out of the
ordinary, he thought nothing of it, but he went home that night not realizing he had just set in motion
events that would soon shock the nation's banking system, if not the world. You see, he had inadvertently
clicked on an infected email, one that immediately began installing a malicious program in the central bank's
computer systems. This malware would allow intruders to enter the network and gain access to the inner workings
of the Bangladesh Bank. Hiding in plain sight, these intruders could now spy on workers and study the bank's
operational procedures. And that's what they did. It was now just a matter of time.