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Sri Lanka discloses another missing payment, days after hackers stole $2.5M from its finance ministry

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Feed Name: TechCrunch Security News

Threat Score
60/100

Date Published: 2026-04-29

Date Updated: 2026-04-29

Author: Zack Whittaker

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News reports detail a series of suspected business email compromise attacks targeting Sri Lankan government payments, including about $625,000 missing en route to the U.S. Postal Service and a prior $2.5 million theft from the finance ministry. Authorities detected payment diversions and are probing whether additional irregularities affecting payments to India and Australia indicate a broader pattern.

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