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Purveyor

(29,876 posts) Tue Mar 12, 2013, 08:04 PM Mar 2013

Chase Bank Site Attacked, Suffers Intermittent Outage

Source: NBC NEWS

The website of Chase Bank was inaccessible on Tuesday because of a denial-of-service attack. The initial service interruption to Chase.com lasted about 90 minutes, from about 5 to 6:30 p.m. ET.

When the site did load intermittently during that time, it displayed a warning that the website was unavailable and users should try again later.

Chase confirmed that the outage was due to a denial-of-service attack, in which attackers bombard websites with an overwhelming amount of traffic, overloading their servers and causing sluggish performance or a complete loss of service.

The hacking group taking responsibility, which calls itself al-Qassam Cyber Fighters, announced its intentions to hack a number of banks in this manner several months ago, and has targeted Bank of America, Citibank, Capitol One, and others. The group cites what it sees as U.S. refusal to remove a YouTube video grossly offensive to those who practice Islam.

Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/technolog/chase-bank-site-attacked-suffers-intermittent-outage-1C8832805

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Chase Bank Site Attacked, Suffers Intermittent Outage (Original Post) Purveyor Mar 2013 OP

IDK the US Goverment owned and operated YouTube. Who knew? freshwest Mar 2013 #1

No actual damage done. I'd love to say I hate to see Chase having a problem, mbperrin Mar 2013 #2

freshwest

(53,661 posts)

1. IDK the US Goverment owned and operated YouTube. Who knew?

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Tue Mar 12, 2013, 08:07 PM

Mar 2013

mbperrin

(7,672 posts)

2. No actual damage done. I'd love to say I hate to see Chase having a problem,

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Tue Mar 12, 2013, 08:10 PM

Mar 2013

but my momma told me liars go to hell.

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