Danish Central Bank and 7 private banks’ websites hit by hackers.

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Danish Central Bank and 7 private banks’ websites hit by hackers.

January 11, 2023January 11, 2023

According to the central bank and an IT company that supports the industry, hackers have disrupted access to the websites of Denmark’s central bank and seven of its private banks this week.

The websites of the central bank and Bankdata, a business that creates IT solutions for the financial sector, were targeted by so-called distributed denials of service (DDoS) attacks, which aim to take down certain servers by sending traffic to them.

The central bank’s website was operating normally on Tuesday afternoon, according to a spokeswoman, and the attack had no effect on the bank’s other systems or regular business operations.

Following the DDoS attack on Bankdata on Tuesday, seven private banks’ websites had access temporarily restricted, according to a business representative.

He claimed that the banks included Jyske Bank and Sydbank, two of Denmark’s biggest.

On Tuesday, Sydbank restricted access to its website, which was announced on its Facebook page. A Jyske representative acknowledged that some consumers encountered difficulties on Tuesday accessing the company’s website.

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