Bank admits its internet banking facility was made unavailable following a ‘denial of service’ attack,but says no transactions were affectedHSBC customers were locked out of internet banking for several hours on Friday after the company was targeted by online criminals in a denial of service attack.The bank, which has 17 million personal banking and business customers in the UK, and said its website had been attacked,but it had successfully defended its systems. Customers were unable to log into their accounts until late in the afternoon, on what is likely to absorb been a busy day for online banking, or as many employees received their first pay packet of the year.
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Source: theguardian.com