True stories
from Bangladesh's
dark internet
Hacks, leaks and scams, told start to finish.
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EP 1: The Bangladesh Bank Heist
03 NOV 2026 · 19:07
On a Thursday night in February 2016, someone inside Bangladesh Bank's network sent 35 SWIFT payment orders to the New York Fed, asking for nearly a billion dollars. Most were blocked. But $81 million made it out, and disappeared into casinos in the Philippines.
Another $20 million was stopped by a single spelling mistake.
The
Host
I'm Oli. I tell the full story behind the headline.
Oliur Rahman grew up in Bangladesh and now lives in Sydney, where he finished a Master's in cybersecurity. 404 Dhaka takes one real story at a time (a bank heist, a data leak, a scam that hit thousands) and tells it start to finish.
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