Tien Phong Commercial Joint Stock Bank of Vietnam revealed it was the target of a computer attack where hackers tried to steal more than $1.13 million through the bank’s connection to the SWIFT interbank messaging system. The bank said there was a fraudulent transfer request for more than 1 million euros, which came through a third-party service the bank used to connect to SWIFT and was blocked. SWIFT had earlier said hackers abusing its system had struck a second organization. The first was the cyber heist at Bangladesh’s central bank when more than $80 million from the central bank’s account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York were stolen in February. The bank said it is no longer using the a third party application, which SWIFT said could have been used in the attack.
