Anonymous (FawkesSecurity) have claimed responsibility for the Ddos attack on HSBC.
"On 18 October 2012 HSBC servers came under a denial of service attack which affected a number of HSBC websites around the world. This denial of service attack did not affect any customer data, but did prevent customers using HSBC online services, including internet banking," the company said in a statement.
"We are taking appropriate action, working hard to restore service. We are pleased to say that some sites are now back up and running," it added.
On 19th October 2012 at 3:00am UK time HSBC bank system was back up and running. The bank could not provide any further details of the attack apart from the attack taking place sometime on 18th October 2012.
HSBC said “We are cooperating with the relevant authorities and will cooperate with other organisations that have been similarly affected by such criminal acts.”
FawkesSecurity has taken full responsibility for this attack, which was carried out by Ddos attack. The hackers managed to take down all 5 websites of HSBC within 20mins according to their tweets. A message was also left by the hackers in pastebin: http://pastebin.com/P5zqzwBU
Pastebin message
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As some of you may be aware HSBC bank suffered several DDoS attacks on the named sites in the past hours us.hsbc.com hsbc.co.uk hsbc.com hsbc.ca they were all brought down by #FawkesSecurity. Before any claim fags attempt to take ownership of this attack, the proof is all in our Twitter account, Targets, time and date smile @FawkesSecurity
We are Anonymous
We are legion
We do not forget
We do not forgive
Expect us
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Anonymous also left various tweets on twitter after the attack including one that said
Anonymous @FawkesSecurity – ‘’Looks like HSBC have called the Feds in after our little stunt. http://fbi.gov/ <<< Should we? #OpDosLikeABoss #FawkesSecurity’’
Half a dozen banks — including the Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, and Citigroup — have witnessed traffic surges and disruptions. Not all have confirmed they were the victims of an online onslaught, but such surges are a hallmark of denial-of-service attacks, which work by drowning target websites with streams of junk data.
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