Security News > 2020 > January > 6 Suspects Arrested in Maltese Bank Hacking Heist

Police in the United Kingdom have arrested six suspects as part of a months-long money laundering investigation tied to the theft of €13 million from a Maltese bank.

As part of the investigations into the bank heist, which has been tied to an organized crime gang, Britain's National Crime Agency says it arrested two men, ages 22 and 17, last week in London.

The attacks were detected at the start of business on a Wednesday morning, and all bank functions - "Branches, ATMs, mobile banking and even email services" - were suspended just 30 minutes later, Times of Malta reported.

"The bank would like to assure its clients that customer accounts and their funds are in no way impacted or compromised and that the bank is working relentlessly to resolve the issue and have its operations running at the earliest possible time," it said in a Feb. 13 statement.

On Feb. 14, 2019, the Bank of Valetta announced that almost all services had been restored, after "Rigorous overnight testing of the bank's IT systems" had been successful.

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