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Police declined to identify the suspect or the Slovenian bank
but said it was based in the northeastern city of Murska Sobota
and had not suffered any losses.
The foreigner was suspected of theft and money laundering, and
the Slovenian bank had alerted the police, force spokeswoman
Suzana Raus said.
Le Manh Hung, head of the State Bank of Vietnam's (SBV)
Information Technology Department, told Reuters on Tuesday that
the Dec. 8 transfer - for 1.2 million euros via the SWIFT
network - was the only attempt to steal funds detected by Tien
Phong Bank (TPBank).
Unlisted TPBank revealed the interrupted cyber heist in response
to Reuters inquiries on Sunday. It involved the use of bogus
SWIFT messages, the technique at the heart of a massive theft in
February from the Bangladesh central bank.
SWIFT, a linchpin of the global financial system, is used by
about 11,000 banks and financial institutions for transactions.
(Reporting By Marja Novak; editing by John Stonestreet)
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