Bank of America’s website was sluggish and intermittently unavailable for many users on Tuesday, in an outage that the bank hadn’t explained by the end of the day.
Someone claiming to represent “cyber fighters of Izz ad-din Al qassam” said it would attack the Bank of America and the New York Stock Exchange as a “first step” in a campaign against properties of “American-Zionist Capitalists.”
“This attack will continue until the Erasing of that nasty movie. Beware this attack can vary in type,” said the statement on an internet bulletin board known as pastebin.com, where hackers often post such threats.
Bank of America said its website is available but some customers may experience occasional slowness. “We are working to ensure full availability,” bank spokesman Mark Pipitone said.
Bank of America customers reached by Reuters in New York, Georgia, Ohio and Michigan said they could not access the website.
Data from Keynote, a testing and monitoring company, showed that the problems began around 10 a.m. ET and were still ongoing as of 6:10 p.m.
“It’s possible that something Bank of America has done on its end, some kind of change, caused the problem,” said Aaron Rudger, Keynote’s senior marketing manager of Web performance. The bank’s homepage looked different before the trouble began, he said.
As of about 6 p.m., Rudger said, a “small percentage” of website requests were being fulfilled successfully, but the majority were still met with errors.
Last year, the No. 2 U.S. bank experienced six days of problems with its website, which it blamed on heavy traffic and an upgrade of its systems. The site allows customers to check balances, transfer money and make payments.
In 3 years I’ve tried 6 attempts to modify back to the 5.75% loan and I was denied once and I was ignored on the other attempts. I was not being greedy or forcefull, I just wanted my original LOCK-IN AGREEMENT! Because no loan is equal, neither is the statement true, Equal housing Opportunity and Equal housing lender. How can they be equal if they judge and condemn the poor and glorify the rich? I was told I could not afford the cheaper loan when I immediately called countrywide, but I had to sign because my family was going to be on the street if we waited and the bank new this. Our first time buying a house was hell, so shall fire come down from heaven by God’s hand. Because of Countrywides and Bank of Americas afflicting deeds of and exploiting the wages towards Americans, the worth of my house and property has decreased $50,000. The same amount they are foreclosing on my loan for. I find my house in pre-foreclosure online at 2/3 the price they’re trying to keep me obligated to under a predatory loan that changed on me without notification. I did not know this until I went to sign in 2008. I was locked-in at 5.75% and they changed it to 6.25%. It was supposed to be $0 down, 0 credit, $0 at closing as the builder claimed, but we ended up having to give our last $3,000 to our name. Now for some reason, probably to hide the way I have been treated ever since we purchased the loan and house, no-one seems to be able to find my lock-in agreement document that even my escrow and loan documents states is supposed to be there. So instead of giving me a copy of my lock-in agreement, B of A is foreclosing on me and trying to sell my note and loan to someone else trying to hide what they did and how they treated, a White, American Indian, German and Irish American Christian Child of God. I am telling the World, Universe and God Himself, to deal with Banks, greed, exploitation and their judging against man and his credit. So shall they all exploiters and extortioners of mans wages be given what they have done to God’s Children, DOUBLE in the Name of My Lord, Jesus Christ, in the form of storms and solar flares with God, His Spirit, Power, His Son and Blood being added in the Air, Light, Solar substance and water too, with God’s energy and power piercing through and eternally purifying All physical and spiritual substance. It IS DOne!
Now instead of B of A adhering to our rights and answering our QWR and our request for the lock-in agreement they for some reason don’t have, which shows proof of them upholding preditory lending practices and neglect towards their borrowers rights, they put my house into pre-foreclosure and it gets put up for sale at 2/3 for what my loan is. I still can’t get my lock-in agreement. I tried to get it from Countrywide and they sold out to B of A. Now B of A is doing the same thing. So because B of A is doing the same as Countrywide did to me, so will B of A fail in the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, Amen. All B of A had to do was give me the cheapest loan available at the time and give the same equally to everyone no matter what their credit score was. But they made sure of it that I DID NOT HAVE NOR GET AN EQUAL HOUSING OPPOTUNITY NOR LENDER. B of A has come against God and His Children, so shall He give banks, the same they render unto Us.