Regions Bank Confirms Online Outage

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://www.bankinfosecurity.com/regions-bank-confirms-online-outage-a-5189

By Tracy Kitten
Bank Info Security
October 11, 2012

Regions Financial Corp. on Oct. 11 confirmed its online banking and 
corporate websites were suffering intermittent outages related to an 
Internet service disruption.

The Regions site outages were expected, based on distributed denial of 
service attack threats posted Oct. 8 on Pastebin by the hacktivist group 
Izz ad-Din al-Qassam. Regions is the eighth U.S. bank to take an online 
hit in the last four weeks.

"We are experiencing an Internet service disruption that is 
intermittently impacting our customers' ability to access our website or 
use our online banking service," Regions spokeswoman Evelyn Mitchell 
told BankInfoSecurity. "We are working quickly to resolve this issue and 
regret any inconvenience customers may be experiencing."

According to Is It Down Right Now, an outage-tracking site, Regions was 
suffering sporadic outages throughout the morning and early afternoon of 
Oct. 11. Down For Everyone Not Just Me, another tracking site, also 
confirmed the outages. But as of early afternoon, no outages for Regions 
had yet been reported to the online-outage-tracking site Sitedown.

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