Hackers Hit Websites of Danish Central Bank, Other Banks

Hackers have disrupted access to the websites of Denmark's central bank and seven private banks in the country this week, according to the central bank and an IT firm that serves the industry. From a report: The websites of the central bank and Bankdata, a company that develops IT solutions for the financial industry, were hit by so-called distributed denials of service (DDoS), which direct traffic towards targeted servers in a bid to knock them offline. A spokesperson for the central bank said its website was working normally on Tuesday afternoon and the attack did not impact the bank's other systems or day-to-day operations. Access to the websites of seven private banks was briefly restricted on Tuesday after the DDoS attack on Bankdata, a company spokesperson said. The banks included two of Denmark's largest, Jyske Bank and Sydbank, he said.

Hackers

[nevermindme]

2020s Corp Speak Manual - Hacker / Hackers (noun) - The lazy description of a configuration problem exposed by another party that does not claim usage and/or accountability. The assumption of publicly connected systems is that is going to be called by the wrong agent, from the wrong nation, from the wrong client, doing the wrong thing, at the wrong time, with near zero accountability for all the humans involved. When it gets to management for a press release or response to regulators it is "hackers".

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[Anonymous Coward]

IOW, "hackers" means "wasn't us! we dindu nuffink wif dem komputarz!" in corporate-ese.

msmash likes these. A lot.

But no robberies!

[q4Fry]

Remember how less than a week ago, [slashdot.org] there was lots of back slapping and high-fiving because nobody robs Danish banks now that so many transactions are digital? Maybe it just shifted the mechanism for heists.

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[muh_freeze_peach]

Correct. And the lives of people who work at banks are less traumatic for it.