Security News > 2020 > January > A year after Bank of Valletta 'cyber heist', cuffs applied as cash-cleansing case continues
Nearly a year after Malta's Bank of Valletta yanked itself from the internet amid a "Cyber intrusion", Britain's National Crime Agency has made three arrests.
In the hours after the funds arrived, cash withdrawals and card payments were made to the tune of £340k, with money spaffed over London stores such as Harrods and Selfridges, the NCA alleged.
The three arrests were made in Belfast and London and are part of an investigation into the laundering of money linked to last Feburary's shenanigans.
The collars of two chaps, aged 22 and 17, were felt in London on 22 January and a further two warrants were executed in Belfast yesterday, resulting in a 39-year-old being arrested on suspicion of money-laundering offences, fraud and theft.
Finally, the chap who had been arrested in Belfast yesterday has been bailed pending further enquiries.