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Citibank Websites Taken Down By Anonymous
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Experiencing outages, the Citibank websites reportedly went offline quite often where users also complained of error messages while trying to access their accounts.
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Saturday, February 04, 2012:
It seems hacking group Anonymous have launched a series of attacks over the globe. Alongside intercepting a conference call between the FBI and Scotland Yard, according to a The Street reportAnonymous has knocked the Citigroup and Citibank websites offline on Friday.
Experiencing outages, the Citibank websites seemed to go offline quite often. Users also complained of error messages when they tried to log into their banking accounts. “Citigroup’s consumer site had experienced a temporary outage but we had been able to restore website operations within one hour and the we were monitoring their systems,” Andrew Brent, a Citigroup spokesman, was quoted as saying.
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This was part of a string of attacks this week by hackers who call themselves Anonymous Brasil. In posts on Twitter, the hackers mentioned that their attacks were intended to fight corruption. By Friday, they had at various times taken down the websites of Banco BMG, Banco Bradesco, Banco de Brasil, Banco Panamericano, Citigroup, HSBC Holdings, Itau Unibanco Banco Multiplo and Febraban, Brazil’s banking federation.
However, there was no evidence that said hackers had compromised any customer accounts in the attacks. They were able to take down the sites with denial of service attacks, which involve flooding them with traffic until they crash.
In the past, hackers belonging to the Anonymous family have announced their targets before an attack. This was the case with PayPal and with Sony in March, when Anonymous attacked Sony’s PlayStation Network in retaliation for lawsuits against PlayStation hackers.
Priy Pandit, EFYTIMES News Network
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