Last Thursday, the main member-facing Patelco website was downfor around five hours, said Patelco CEO Ken Burns in an interviewTuesday.
“It appears to have been DDoS,” said Burns, referring to thetechnique of bringing a web host down by flooding it withmeaningless information and pointless requests.
As for who launched the attack, the $3.8 billion Patelco(headquartered in Pleasanton, Calif.) on Tuesday was claimed as avictim in a long list of victimized financial institutions postedto the web by the Izzad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters, the group that has been behind thecurrent wave of DDoS attacks.
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