Both ABN Amro and ING are
back to normal on Monday morning after a weekend of cyber attacks which
crippled the two biggest Dutch banks.
Customers were unable to make use of the
banks’ internet banking, mobile banking and iDeal services, online news agency
Nu.nl reported on Monday.
ABN Amro was hit by cyber attacks three times over
the weekend making for a total of seven last week. An ABN Amro spokesman said
the bank was without these services for 2.5 hours on Sunday evening starting at
19:00. The attack on Saturday evening lasted four hours and one on Sunday
afternoon left the bank without these services for two hours.
ING also made
excuses early Monday morning for a cyber attack on Sunday.
The banks insist
their systems and customers accounts
were not compromised. A DDos attack floods a website with a great deal of data
traffic which overtaxes the server making it difficult or completely impossible
to reach.
Central bank
Klaas Knot, president of the Dutch central bank, said on
the Buitenhof telelevision progamme on Sunday that these sort of events
occurred daily. Even the DNB‘s website is hit by attacks every second,
he said.
That’s reality in 2018,’ Knot said, terming it a ‘serious business.’
DNB is in discussions with banks so ensure that their systems are operational
again as quicky as possible.
The central bank president could not say who was
behind the attacks on ABN Amro.
Retail lobby group Detailhandel Nderland said
on Sunday that these sort of attacks caused concern about the stability and
security of the money transfer system.
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