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.
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