A new twist in BB heist!

A senior US intelligence official appeared to confirm that North Korean computer hackers were behind a multi-million dollar heist targeting Bangladesh’s central bank last year, according to The Foreign Policy.

Computer hackers attempted to steal $951 million, but only got away with $81 million. The money eventually reached the Filipino casinos.

The probe report on the Bangladesh Bank cyber heist has not yet been made public although the then BB governor Atiur Rahman resigned following the theft.

After the theft, The Foreign Policy said, security firms quickly pointed the finger at North Korea. Other experts disputed that finding, it pointed out.

However, on Tuesday, National Security Agency

(NSA) deputy director Rick Ledgett appeared to say North Korea was the culprit during a cryptic exchange at a Washington forum.

Ledgett reportedly claimed that private sector researchers had linked the digital break-in in Bangladesh to the 2014 hack on Sony Pictures, which the US government attributed to Pyongyang.

“If that linkage from the Sony actors to the Bangladeshi bank actors is accurate - that means that a nation state is robbing banks,” Ledgett was quoted to have said. “That’s a big deal.”

Still, Ledgett’s remarks studiously avoided any reference to what evidence the agency has collected on the Bangladesh Bank heist. His remarks also stopped short of an official US government statement that North Korea was behind the attack, added The Foreign Policy.