Sri Lanka Discloses New Payment Lapse Days After Hack Revelation

Sri Lanka’s government has disclosed a payment lapse involving funds due to the US Post, days after revealing a separate cyberattack, raising fresh questions about its financial safeguards as it continues to recover from an unprecedented default.

Authorities said on Tuesday they are probing the whereabouts of a payment of about $600,000 after the US Post said it had not been received. The island nation is also investigating the theft of $2.5 million by hackers who breached the finance ministry’s computer systems, officials said last week.