The Royal Bank of Scotland has suffered a second major cyber-attack within a week, leaving a wealth of phishing threats in its wake.
Many customers found their accounts to be inaccessible Thursday night and into Friday. The bank reported that it was the victim of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. “Due to a surge in internet traffic deliberately directed at the NatWest website, customers experienced difficulties accessing some of our customer websites today,” it told the Guardian. “We have taken the appropriate action to restore the affected websites.”
The issue follows an incident last Monday, when RBS, Ulster Bank and NatWest customers saw an outage of several hours that evening, when they were unable to use their cards to draw cash or pay for goods or services. It affected about 150,000 people.
