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 company that services the industry.
Websites for the central bank and Bankdata, a company that develops IT solutions for the financial industry, were affected by so-called distributed denials of service (DDoS), which direct traffic to specific servers in an attempt to take them offline.
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A central bank spokesman said its website was working normally on Tuesday afternoon and the attack did not affect the bank’s other systems or daily operations.
The websites of Denmark’s central bank and seven private banks went offline after being attacked by hackers.
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Access to the websites of seven private banks was briefly restricted on Tuesday after the DDoS attack on Bankdata, a company spokesperson said.
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The banks include two of Denmark’s biggest, Jyske Bank and Sydbank, he said.
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Sydbank confirmed on its Facebook page that access to its website was restricted on Tuesday. A Jyske spokesperson confirmed that some customers had been having trouble accessing its website on Tuesday.
