Website Down: Pnc Bank Under Heavy Denial Of Service Attack This Past Week

In the past seven days, 59 downtime reports were filed for problems with PNC.com on Sitedown.co, a website that tracks online outages. In the last 30 days, 112 downtime reports were filed as of 3:55 p.m. Friday, January 4, 2013.

Pittsburgh-based PNC said it believes the situation is an "access issue not an issue of account security" and said its website is "protected by sophisticated encryption strategies that shield customer information and accounts."

PNC said it has "taken steps to block" the nefarious traffic and "maintain online and mobile banking access for the vast majority of its customers." However, the bank said "in some cases" those countermeasures may have shut out a "small percentage of legitimate PNC customers for an extended period."

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