Regions Bank website hits by Cyber attack
A cyber attack disrupted the Regions Bank website Friday, highlighting the growing threat of these types of attacks on banks across the country.
Mel Campbel, spokesperson for the bank, said Friday that access to Regions' websites and online banking were disrupted throughout the day due to the ‘DDoS' attack. Some customers may also have been unable to use their check cards at ATMs or merchants.
“Attacks like this have not been uncommon this year for us, or frankly for any other major banks — the large regionals or the money center banks,” said Regions Bank spokesman Mel Campbell.
Some customers were unable to access the Regions Bank website Friday after bank officials reported a cyberattack that made it difficult for some customers to use their check cards or check their accounts
AL.com reports (http://bit.ly/13LBkxA ) access to the regions.com website and online banking at Regions were disrupted intermittently Friday by the cyberattack which bank officials called a "distributed denial of service attack."
Software giant Symantec calculates that cyber attacks against U.S. businesses jumped 42 percent just last year, according to a recent AP report.
Friday, an official statement from Regions said: “Access to regions.com and online banking were disrupted intermittently today by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. Some customers may have also been unable to use their CheckCards at ATMs or at merchants. We apologize for the difficulties this has caused ...”
The way the DDoS, attacks on the banks work is thousands of computers simultaneously pull up a single website and request various actions to overload it, either slowing the site to a crawl or crashing it.
Mel Campbel, spokesperson for the bank, said Friday that access to Regions' websites and online banking were disrupted throughout the day due to the ‘DDoS' attack. Some customers may also have been unable to use their check cards at ATMs or merchants.
“Attacks like this have not been uncommon this year for us, or frankly for any other major banks — the large regionals or the money center banks,” said Regions Bank spokesman Mel Campbell.
Some customers were unable to access the Regions Bank website Friday after bank officials reported a cyberattack that made it difficult for some customers to use their check cards or check their accounts
AL.com reports (http://bit.ly/13LBkxA ) access to the regions.com website and online banking at Regions were disrupted intermittently Friday by the cyberattack which bank officials called a "distributed denial of service attack."
Software giant Symantec calculates that cyber attacks against U.S. businesses jumped 42 percent just last year, according to a recent AP report.
Friday, an official statement from Regions said: “Access to regions.com and online banking were disrupted intermittently today by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. Some customers may have also been unable to use their CheckCards at ATMs or at merchants. We apologize for the difficulties this has caused ...”
The way the DDoS, attacks on the banks work is thousands of computers simultaneously pull up a single website and request various actions to overload it, either slowing the site to a crawl or crashing it.
Regions Bank website hits by Cyber attack
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