Citibank Japan Site Down?

[FG Lurker]

I can't access the Citibank Japan site, is it down for everyone else as well?

http://www.citibank.co.jp

[Mulboyne]

I can't access it either. Heavy demand because of the BoJ intervention?

[Coligny]

I can't access it either. Heavy demand because of the BoJ intervention?

Dead as... something dead...

Sumbody spilled beer on the servers...

Looks like a DNS problem, BEWARE WHEN IT COMEZ BACK, might be a man-in-the-middle attack.

[osopolar]

it's working fine for me..

[Mulboyne]

I can get on to it now as well.

[FG Lurker]

Yup, back for me now too.

It went down sometime in the middle of the night last night, before the intervention started. Last time I know for sure it was up was 2:30am. It likely went down sometime between 2:30 and 3am.

I know someone who used to work in IT for Citibank Japan. He was not at all impressed with the way things were run there (to say the least.) Based on his stories I wouldn't be surprised if someone yanked the primary DNS server without bothering to make sure the secondary was running or maybe even pulled both offline at once...

[Mock Cockpit]

All your money still there Lurk?

[FG Lurker]

All your money still there Lurk?

Actually I don't use Citibank anymore, I just monitor their exchange rate page.

[Taro Toporific]

Perhaps this hacking caused the glitch...


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[SIZE="3"]WSJ: Citi Hit By Data Theft In Japan[/SIZE]
---The fraudsters targeting Citi never sleep---
Saturday, Nikkei.com / August 6, 2011 by Suzanne Kapner
Thieves made off with personal information of 92,408 Citigroup Inc. credit card customers in Japan and sold the data to third parties, the bank said Friday. It's the second data theft for Citi in three months and the latest sign of how vulnerable banks and their customers are in a world of high-tech banditry.
Customer account numbers, names, addresses, phone numbers, birth dates, account-opening dates and gender information were stolen, Citi said. But the most sensitive data, including personal identification numbers and card security codes, weren't taken, reducing the possibility that fraud will occur, Citi said.
Citi said it reported the theft to police after it was alerted to the problem by a customer inquiry. The New York-based company said it has been cooperating with the investigation. Fraud alerts have been placed on the affected accounts, but no suspicious transactions have been detected, the bank said.
The theft of customer data in Japan follows a disclosure by Citi in June that hackers stole $2.7 million from its North American credit-card customers. The bank covered customer losses.
Unlike the theft in the U.S., in which 360,000 accounts were breached by a sophisticated hacking technique, the scheme in Japan was perpetrated by a third-party vendor that had been given access to Citi's internal systems, people familiar with the situation said.
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