Central bank working on to retrieve money

The central bank said that it is making utmost efforts to retrieve money amounting to over Rs 400 million transferred to various banks abroad by hackers using SWIFT from NIC Asia Bank.
Some unidentified hackers broke into the Society for Worldwide Interbank Telecommunication (SWIFT) – an international payment network – at the NIC Asia Bank in Kathmandu, and had siphoned off the amount during the Tihar festival. A total of 11,000 banking and financial institutions across 200 countries are said to be using SWIFT system. The hackers have transferred the amount to eight banks in six countries, according to the investigation.
According to the deputy spokesperson at the central bank Rajendra Pandit, the central bank has asked the domestic banks to make efforts to retrieve the amount transferred abroad. It has also sought help of banks in those six countries from where hackers have requested the transfer.
Meanwhile, NIC Asia Bank has been stepping up its effort towards this end.
Pandit also reminded that the central bank had instructed all the banks and financial institutions to pay special attention to the usage of IT in banking not only to make banking easier, convenient but also to curb the cyber attack and illegal transferring in the banking.
The central bank had also summoned the chief of the IT department of all the banks in the capital to discuss how to secure the internal system of banking.
The central bank governor has also directed the banks and financial institutions to set up IT desk in their institutions.