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TD Bank was the victim of a cyberattack this morning that rendered its mobile banking and online banking systems inoperable, a spokesperson confirmed.
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Though JPMorgan Chase and BB&T are the only big banks to confirm a denial of service attack on Tuesday, roughly a half dozen institutions endured digital assaults at around the same time, according to the security firm Radware.
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A group of hacktivists who claimed responsibility for a series of cyberattacks on some of the nation's biggest banks is vowing to resume its offensive.
March 5
Wells Fargo (WFC) weathered a cyberattack on Tuesday that left some of the company's customers unable to log in to their accounts.
The nation's fourth-biggest bank by assets experienced "an unusually high volume of website traffic which we believe is a denial of service attack," spokeswoman Sara Hawkins said in an email.
Hawkins said the "vast majority" of Wells Fargo's customers were unaffected by the electronic assault, which disrupted online and mobile banking. The company encouraged customers who were unable to access their accounts "to try logging on again as the disruption is usually intermittent," Hawkins added.
The website
Earlier Tuesday, the al-Qassam Cyber Fighters, a hacktivist group that has claimed responsibility for a series of attacks since September that have bogged down websites at some of the nation's biggest banks, claimed in an email to have barraged websites at Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase (JPM), BB&T (BBT), PNC Financial (PNC), Citigroup (NYSE:C), U.S. Bancorp (USB), SunTrust (STI) and Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB) in the past week. The group vows to continue its
The attack on Wells Fargo comes five days after a denial of service attack on
Both JPMorgan Chase and BB&T
