NEW YORK - Two more major American banks, U.S. Bank and PNC, reported problems with their customer websites Wednesday after a financial services security group warned about possible cyberattacks.
U.S. Bank spokesman Tom Joyce said some customers experienced intermittent delays. He said the bank was working to fix the problem and was working with law enforcement. Wells Fargo & Co.’s website was attacked Tuesday.
A spokesman for PNC, Fred Solomon, said its online operations were mostly normal but some customers had trouble accessing PNC.com on their first try. He said the bank was aware of a similar threat for Thursday and was taking precautions.
The U.S. Bank spokesman said the issue appeared to be related to problems at other banks in the past week. JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America both had site problems last week, and Wells Fargo reported access problems with its site Tuesday.
In a posting at Pastebin.com, a group claimed responsibility for last week’s outages at Bank of America, Citi, and JPMorgan before hitting U.S. Bancorp and Wells Fargo. It said it would attack U.S. Bancorp on Wednesday and PNC Financial Services on Thursday.
The posting said the attacks would continue until a video insulting the Islamic prophet Muhammad was removed from the Internet.
Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., told C-SPAN last week he believed Iran was behind the Chase and Bank of America attacks. Also last week, the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center, an industry group, raised its cyber threat level to "high" from "elevated" because of potential cyberattacks.
U.S. Bank is part of U.S. Bancorp, the nation's No. 8 financial company by assets, according to the most recent federal figures. PNC is part of PNC Financial Services Group, which is No. 11.
well first off, they were attacked by a bot net, not hackers, and they never got into their systems, just flooded the web servers to make them boged down and not useable...
is it a problem? minor one... this is moreso a issue of people who shouldnt be allowed to use a computer having malware and letting their pc's be controlled...
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Formula88 Member
Posts: 53788 From: Raleigh NC Registered: Jan 2001
And of course, these attacks come from people with no computer skills at all--you know--Joe the plumbers and the guys and gals pushing shopping carts around back alleys.
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Marvin McInnis Member
Posts: 11599 From: ~ Kansas City, USA Registered: Apr 2002
... this is moreso a issue of people who shouldnt be allowed to use a computer having malware and letting their pc's be controlled...
And this statement is like blaming homeowners who have been burglarized. I agree that many, perhaps most, computer users in the world are clueless when it comes to security ... but the responsibility for criminal intrusion rests solely with the criminal intruders. Unintentionally leaving a door unlocked, for example, does not make burglary (or worse) of a home any more legal or justifiable.
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jaskispyder Member
Posts: 21510 From: Northern MI Registered: Jun 2002
It's a minor issue if you don't use the bank. if you need access to your account (as my wife did last night), it becomes more of an issue. and before anyone suggests it, "just phone/visit them" isn't a solution. The website and apps are available 24/7, with convenience of not waiting in line for a representative, and able to see your history and reporting in one page vs being read things. The two aren't comparable.
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