{"id":257101,"date":"2024-11-28T12:07:06","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T12:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/11\/28\/hackers-steal-17-million-from-ugandan-central-bank\/"},"modified":"2024-11-28T12:07:06","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T12:07:06","slug":"hackers-steal-17-million-from-ugandan-central-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/11\/28\/hackers-steal-17-million-from-ugandan-central-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers steal $17 million from Ugandan Central Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"-webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-touch-callout: none; -moz-user-select: none; -ms-user-select: none; user-select: none;\">\n<p id=\"article-123\">Hackers breached the Ugandan central bank\u2019s systems and stole 62 billion shillings ($17 million) from its accounts, New Vision reported.<\/p>\n<p>The attack on the Bank of Uganda was carried out by a group known as \u201cWaste\u201d based in Southeast Asia, the Kampala-based newspaper said on Thursday, citing people it didn\u2019t identify. The bank recovered about 37 billion shillings of the amount taken, it said.<\/p>\n<p>The police and the auditor general\u2019s office are investigating the incident, it said. The bank didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for comment sent by Bloomberg.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Monitor newspaper reported separately that the total amount stolen was 47.8 billion shillings and the money was spirited away in September into two accounts in Japan and the UK. <\/p>\n<p>The fraud was an \u201cinside job\u201d and several employees at the central bank and the finance ministry have been questioned, the paper said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers breached the Ugandan central bank\u2019s systems and stole 62 billion shillings ($17 million) from its accounts, New Vision reported. The attack on the Bank of Uganda was carried out by a group known as \u201cWaste\u201d based in Southeast Asia, the Kampala-based newspaper said on Thursday, citing people it didn\u2019t identify. The bank recovered about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":257102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Hackers steal $17 million from Ugandan Central Bank - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/11\/28\/hackers-steal-17-million-from-ugandan-central-bank\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hackers steal $17 million from Ugandan Central Bank - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hackers breached the Ugandan central bank\u2019s systems and stole 62 billion shillings ($17 million) from its accounts, New Vision reported. The attack on the Bank of Uganda was carried out by a group known as \u201cWaste\u201d based in Southeast Asia, the Kampala-based newspaper said on Thursday, citing people it didn\u2019t identify. The bank recovered about [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/11\/28\/hackers-steal-17-million-from-ugandan-central-bank\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-11-28T12:07:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/88476007.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"337\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Ghana News\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Ghana News\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2024\\\/11\\\/28\\\/hackers-steal-17-million-from-ugandan-central-bank\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2024\\\/11\\\/28\\\/hackers-steal-17-million-from-ugandan-central-bank\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Ghana News\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2024\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/c70749f3edfbfcd92d45e933f0fe10b5\"},\"headline\":\"Hackers steal $17 million from Ugandan Central Bank\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-11-28T12:07:06+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2024\\\/11\\\/28\\\/hackers-steal-17-million-from-ugandan-central-bank\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":151,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2024\\\/11\\\/28\\\/hackers-steal-17-million-from-ugandan-central-bank\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2024\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2024\\\/11\\\/88476007.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Business\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2024\\\/11\\\/28\\\/hackers-steal-17-million-from-ugandan-central-bank\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2024\\\/11\\\/28\\\/hackers-steal-17-million-from-ugandan-central-bank\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2024\\\/11\\\/28\\\/hackers-steal-17-million-from-ugandan-central-bank\\\/\",\"name\":\"Hackers steal $17 million from Ugandan Central Bank - Ghanamma.com\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2024\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2024\\\/11\\\/28\\\/hackers-steal-17-million-from-ugandan-central-bank\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2024\\\/11\\\/28\\\/hackers-steal-17-million-from-ugandan-central-bank\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2024\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2024\\\/11\\\/88476007.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-11-28T12:07:06+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2024\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/c70749f3edfbfcd92d45e933f0fe10b5\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2024\\\/11\\\/28\\\/hackers-steal-17-million-from-ugandan-central-bank\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2024\\\/11\\\/28\\\/hackers-steal-17-million-from-ugandan-central-bank\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2024\\\/11\\\/28\\\/hackers-steal-17-million-from-ugandan-central-bank\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2024\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2024\\\/11\\\/88476007.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2024\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2024\\\/11\\\/88476007.jpg\",\"width\":600,\"height\":337},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2024\\\/11\\\/28\\\/hackers-steal-17-million-from-ugandan-central-bank\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2024\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Hackers steal $17 million from Ugandan Central Bank\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2024\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2024\\\/\",\"name\":\"Ghanamma.com\",\"description\":\"Ghana mma provides breaking news, top stories in Ghana, Africa, business, entertainment, politics and more.\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2024\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2024\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/c70749f3edfbfcd92d45e933f0fe10b5\",\"name\":\"Ghana News\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Ghana News\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2024\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2024\\\/author\\\/ghanamma\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Hackers steal $17 million from Ugandan Central Bank - Ghanamma.com","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/11\/28\/hackers-steal-17-million-from-ugandan-central-bank\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Hackers steal $17 million from Ugandan Central Bank - Ghanamma.com","og_description":"Hackers breached the Ugandan central bank\u2019s systems and stole 62 billion shillings ($17 million) from its accounts, New Vision reported. The attack on the Bank of Uganda was carried out by a group known as \u201cWaste\u201d based in Southeast Asia, the Kampala-based newspaper said on Thursday, citing people it didn\u2019t identify. The bank recovered about [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/11\/28\/hackers-steal-17-million-from-ugandan-central-bank\/","og_site_name":"Ghanamma.com","article_published_time":"2024-11-28T12:07:06+00:00","og_image":[{"width":600,"height":337,"url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/88476007.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Ghana News","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Ghana News","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/11\/28\/hackers-steal-17-million-from-ugandan-central-bank\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/11\/28\/hackers-steal-17-million-from-ugandan-central-bank\/"},"author":{"name":"Ghana News","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/#\/schema\/person\/c70749f3edfbfcd92d45e933f0fe10b5"},"headline":"Hackers steal $17 million from Ugandan Central Bank","datePublished":"2024-11-28T12:07:06+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/11\/28\/hackers-steal-17-million-from-ugandan-central-bank\/"},"wordCount":151,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/11\/28\/hackers-steal-17-million-from-ugandan-central-bank\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/88476007.jpg","articleSection":["Business"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/11\/28\/hackers-steal-17-million-from-ugandan-central-bank\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/11\/28\/hackers-steal-17-million-from-ugandan-central-bank\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/11\/28\/hackers-steal-17-million-from-ugandan-central-bank\/","name":"Hackers steal $17 million from Ugandan Central Bank - Ghanamma.com","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/11\/28\/hackers-steal-17-million-from-ugandan-central-bank\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/11\/28\/hackers-steal-17-million-from-ugandan-central-bank\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/88476007.jpg","datePublished":"2024-11-28T12:07:06+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/#\/schema\/person\/c70749f3edfbfcd92d45e933f0fe10b5"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/11\/28\/hackers-steal-17-million-from-ugandan-central-bank\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/11\/28\/hackers-steal-17-million-from-ugandan-central-bank\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/11\/28\/hackers-steal-17-million-from-ugandan-central-bank\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/88476007.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/88476007.jpg","width":600,"height":337},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/11\/28\/hackers-steal-17-million-from-ugandan-central-bank\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Hackers steal $17 million from Ugandan Central Bank"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/","name":"Ghanamma.com","description":"Ghana mma provides breaking news, top stories in Ghana, Africa, business, entertainment, politics and more.","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/#\/schema\/person\/c70749f3edfbfcd92d45e933f0fe10b5","name":"Ghana News","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Ghana News"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024"],"url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/author\/ghanamma\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}