{"id":378,"date":"2013-03-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/03\/26\/wells-fargo-says-cyber-attack-disrupting-website\/"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:37:09","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T11:37:09","slug":"wells-fargo-says-cyber-attack-disrupting-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/03\/26\/wells-fargo-says-cyber-attack-disrupting-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Wells Fargo says cyber attack disrupting website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wells Fargo &#038; Co on Tuesday said its online banking website was experiencing an unusually high volume of traffic that it believes stems from a denial-of-service cyber attack. &#8220;The vast majority of customers are not impacted and customer information remains safe,&#8221; said Bridget Braxton, a spokeswoman for the fourth-largest U.S. bank by assets.   Customers who have trouble should try logging in again because the disruption is usually intermittent, she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since September, a hacker activist group called the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters has said it was launching denial of service attacks against major U.S. banks. <\/p>\n<p>In a posting Tuesday on pastebin.com, the group listed Wells Fargo as one of the banks &#8220;being chosen as a target.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>In its annual report filing last month, Wells said it had not experienced any &#8220;material losses&#8221; related to cyber attacks but that enhancing its protections remained a priority.<\/p>\n<p>Link: http:\/\/www.theoaklandpress.com\/articles\/2013\/03\/26\/news\/story_a57178bd-e005-4605-9097-7ba3ca50eccf.txt?mobredir=false<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-financial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2865,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions\/2865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}