Hackers Siphon $15.3 Million from Mexico Financial System

A hooded man holds a laptop computer as cyber code is projected on him in this illustration picture taken on May 13, 2017. Reuters
A hooded man holds a laptop computer as cyber code is projected on him in this illustration picture taken on May 13, 2017. Reuters
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Hackers Siphon $15.3 Million from Mexico Financial System

A hooded man holds a laptop computer as cyber code is projected on him in this illustration picture taken on May 13, 2017. Reuters
A hooded man holds a laptop computer as cyber code is projected on him in this illustration picture taken on May 13, 2017. Reuters

A cyber attack on Mexico's interbank payment system allowed hackers to make off with more than $15 million in the past several weeks, the Bank of Mexico said Wednesday.

The amount of funds involved in the irregular activity totaled "approximately 300 million pesos ($15.3 million)," Central Bank Governor Alejandro Diaz de Leon told reporters, according to Agence France Presse.

He said commercial bank customers' accounts were never in danger.

An investigation is underway, the governor said, without indicating if the suspected hackers were domestic or international.

He declined to identify the companies that had been hit, only saying that three banks, a broker and a credit union had seen fake transfers.

Sources close to the investigation told Reuters that there were cash withdrawals from dozens of banks around the country shortly after hundreds of fraudulent transfers.

The interbank payments system allows banks to make real-time transfers to each other.

They connect via their own computer systems or an external provider -- the point where the attacks appear to have taken place, Lorenza Martinez, director general of the corporate payments and services system at the central bank, said on Monday.

Martinez revealed that at least five attacks had occurred but, at that time, said the amount taken was still being analyzed.

After the attacks were detected, banks switched to a slower but more secure method, AFP said.



Axios: Trump to Meet Qatar's PM to Discuss Gaza Ceasefire Deal

US President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn of the White House after arriving on Marine One in Washington, DC, USA, 15 July 2025. EPA/Al Drago / POOL
US President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn of the White House after arriving on Marine One in Washington, DC, USA, 15 July 2025. EPA/Al Drago / POOL
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Axios: Trump to Meet Qatar's PM to Discuss Gaza Ceasefire Deal

US President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn of the White House after arriving on Marine One in Washington, DC, USA, 15 July 2025. EPA/Al Drago / POOL
US President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn of the White House after arriving on Marine One in Washington, DC, USA, 15 July 2025. EPA/Al Drago / POOL

US President Donald Trump will meet with Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani on Wednesday to discuss negotiations over a Gaza ceasefire deal, Axios reporter Barak Ravid posted on X.

Israeli and Hamas negotiators have been taking part in the latest round of ceasefire talks in Doha since July 6, discussing a US-backed proposal for a 60-day ceasefire that envisages a phased release of hostages, Israeli troop withdrawals from parts of Gaza and discussions on ending the conflict.

Trump's Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff had said on Sunday that he was "hopeful" on the ceasefire negotiations underway in Qatar, a key mediator between the two sides.

US, Qatari and Egyptian mediators have been working to secure an agreement, however, Israel and Hamas are divided over the extent of an eventual Israeli withdrawal from the Palestinian enclave.

A previous two-month ceasefire ended when Israeli strikes killed more than 400 Palestinians on March 18. Trump earlier this year proposed a US takeover of Gaza, which was condemned globally by rights experts, the UN and Palestinians as a proposal of "ethnic cleansing."

Trump and Sheikh Mohammed are also expected to discuss efforts to resume talks between the US and Iran to reach a new nuclear agreement, Ravid added citing a source familiar with the matter.