Cyberattacks on Banks

Beginning on September 19^th, the Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, U.S. Bank, and PNC Bank websites all faced cyberattacks in which the websites were very slow and sometimes unreachable. The attacks involved large amounts of traffic directed towards the websites to make them crash. This type of attack is known as a “denial of service” attack. These recent attacks were the largest ever and the Islamic group Izz ad-Din al-Qassum Cyber Fighters declared accountability. However, some people believe that the skill involved in planning these attacks was too high for the Cyber Fighters to have caused it.

http://money.cnn.com/2012/09/27/technology/bank-cyberattacks/index.html?hpt=us_c2