Bank of America Under Hacking Attack?

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business/2011/10/bank-of-america-under-hacking-attack/

For a third consecutive business day Bank of America’s homepage is suffering serious disruption. The nation’s largest bank by deposits, with 12 percent of Americans’ bank accounts and over a trillion dollars in deposits, told ABC News “the cause is still under review, but we have ruled out hacking, malware, or any link to the debit fee. We have not said the issues were due to volume either.”

Despite repeated requests from ABC News, the bank has refused to explain the source of these now chronic service problems.

Cyber-security experts counter the only explanation for outages on four of five consecutive days is a so-called denial of service attack.

“The only reasonable conclusion is that they are under attack,” says Steve Gibson, an Internet security expert. ”A site of that size should be expected to handle huge volume with no trouble at all…the only time we ever see anything like this is when some major site has upset a group of hackers.”