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Its website apparently hit with a distributed denial of service attack, the bank has taken to Twitter and Facebook to keep customers informed.
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Several banks that were victims of a fall round of distributed denial of service attacks, including JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America, are likely to be hit again.
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Both PNC and U.S. Bancorp said Wednesday that customers encountered delays when trying to bank online, bringing to at least five the number of banks that have experienced Internet slowdowns since a cyber-threat against American banks emerged last week.
September 26
Two banks targeted by hacktivists are seeing their websites swamped.
Both U.S. Bank (USB) and PNC Bank (PNC) said Thursday their websites have been hit by a torrent of requests that could delay access for some customers.
The institutions are among five banks
U.S. Bank spokesman Tom Joyce told American Banker the bank saw "unusual and coordinated high traffic volume" at its website starting at roughly 11:00 a.m. Eastern time on Wednesday and again about 24 hours later. "It lasted most of the day and started again [Thursday] morning," Joyce said. "Our website has performed very well; however, customers could experience intermittent delays."
PNC took to
The digital assault on PNC recurred two days after the bank said it had
"At this time, all systems are operating normally," PNC spokesman Fred Solomon later said in an email.
Joyce says U.S. Bank is working to maintain clear connections to the Internet and urging customers who encounter snags with online or mobile banking to call the bank via its toll-free number or stop by one of its branches or ATMs. He also says U.S. Bank has been in contact with "federal law enforcement."
The al-Qassam group, which also has threatened JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Bank of America (BAC) and SunTrust (STI) with more attacks, pledges to keep up the assaults, which flood lines that connect banks to the Internet, as long as a trailer for "The Innocence of Muslims," American-made, anti-Muslim film, remains posted on YouTube.