Throughout Monday and Tuesday, online banking at BoA was spotty or totally unresponsive, depending on the time of day. As Washington Post reported, a spokesperson said “the site was slow because of routine upgrades made over the weekend, and not because of an attack of any kind.”
Today, on its Twitter feed, BoA has been telling customers, “We are aware of slowness being experienced by some users. We are working to resolve as quickly as possible.”
In the past few months, the mysterious hacking collective Anonymous made overtures it may attack Bank of America infrastructure. Anonymous often lashes out against perceived enemies of WikiLeaks, and BoA has halted all transactions for the whistleblower group.
Some believe Anonymous might be responsible for the bank’s site slowdown because of a tweet from an Anonymous account that celebrated the disturbance. It can’t be confirmed Anonymous was responsible for this hack against BoA.
This isn’t the first time the major bank has had Web problems. As Forbes reports, “There was a similar online banking outage back on January 14 when the Bank of America website was down for over 6 hours. That day Bank of America said the outage was affecting only a small population of its customers but could not say how many.”
