Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
Swedbank’s Swedish website went down last Friday after being hacked. Swedbank Customers were unable to log in, and carry out online transactions or contact the bank online, says Swedbank spokesman Claes Warren, who was speaking to Reuters last week. Reports in the media varied about the availability of services. The Register said last week: ‘Customers can access their online accounts through a specific URL but are unable to transact with the bank through its website.’ According to Radio Sweden, the bank’s homepage was working again around 9pm (local time) on Friday, having been down for more than nine hours. But Radio Sweden says: ‘All other bank functions worked normally while the site was down’. Warren told Radio Sweden on Friday morning: ‘Someone is flooding our website with data so that it can’t be reached by others [and the bank has a] good idea of the perpetrator’s identity’. ‘The name [of the perpetrator] is quite well known in the hacker community,’ Warren says. The bank’s website was also attacked by a hacker in October. ‘It is not the first time and it will probably not be the last one,’ Warren says. At the time of writing, the Swedish website is now […]
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