Citibank Web Outage Claimed By Brazilian Hackers (Update 1)
Story updated with a comment from Citigroup.
NEW YORK (
) -
Citigroup
(C) - Get Report
's Citibank website were experiencing outages Friday and a Brazilian hacking group is taking credit.
The attack is the fifth in five days by the group. The group previously targeted three Brazilian banks and
HSBC
(HBC)
according to a
in
The Wall Street Journal
on Thursday.
Twitter users were questioning the availability of Citibank site Friday, including Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales who tweeted "Citibank's website is down. Judging from twitter this has been going on for awhile. Big news story?" A Citibank Twitter account responded " No news story. You should see it up and running now. Let me know if you're still having issues in accessing the site. Thx!"
Friday's hacking of the Citigroup site was
by
Business Insider
.
"On Friday morning, Citi's consumer website experienced a temporary interruption in service. Our online team worked immediately to address the issue, and operations were restored within one hour," a Citigroup spokesperson said in an email statement. "We are continuing to monitor the system to ensure continuity of services. At no point were there data integrity issues or compromise of client account information. We apologize for any inconvenience."
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Written by Dan Freed in New York
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