The bank that’s too big to fail when it comes to taking taxpayer dollars apparently is fine with failing their customers, with the site down since morning and no word from BoA on why they’re not operational online. Reports indicate that Bank of America apps for the iPhone and Blackberry are loading fine, but the website- where one would imagine most actual transactions occur- is still unavailable as of 4:15pm EST. That’s a lot of time to be offline, particularly with the weekend coming up. (Update: the site loaded for me after 15 minutes of trying to connect, can any current BoA customers confirm functionality in the comments?)
Speculation is that the Bank of America website is down due to a cyber attack, but with a reaction from the bank that’s the opposite of proactive, it’s up to a bunch of angry customers to connect the dots until the bank explains their outage. (And hopefully profusely apologizes.)UPDATE 2: Commenters here are reporting mixed functionality, most commonly through Google workarounds. (Still noThe website of Bank Of America is down all morning and still not loading. According to Business Insider The website for Bank of America has been malfunctioning all morning.
This is another website down report after twitter because twitter was hacked so there are many chances beside this to hack or other cyber crime targets.A tipster speculates that it is possible that Bank of America has been the victim of a cyber-attack. For now, we’re assuming it is a much more mundane problem. All websites occasionally go down.A call to a spokesperson for Bank of America was not immediately returned.
For those who are trying to access their accounts on January 29th 2010, can notice that the Bank of America website is down.The Bank of America website was down most of the morning. Some said that the Bank of American website down due to some DDOS attack but there is no evidencet very convenient, BoA.) Commenter Lee says:
Sunday, 31 January 2010
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