BND and Project Rahab

Spies among us
Germany
Germany is widely known to be among the most active intelligence collectors in the world. German maintians a very large intelligence organization, called Bundesnachrichtendienst(BND). Although its primary focus was the Eastern Bloc, the BND has always engaged in a significant amout of industrial activity.
Project Rahab is a BND effort to hack into computer networks and compromise systems in the Global Information Infrastructure. It began in the early 1990s and continues to this point.
One of Project Rahab's major reported successes includes infiltration of the SWIFT system, which is one of the world's major financial networks. SWIFT facilitates the transfer of trillions of dollars a day among financial institutions around the world.