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  • CommBank suffers Australia-wide outage

    Commonwealth Bank users across Australia found themselves unable to make transactions today when the bank suffered a countrywide systems outage.

  • CommBank customers hit by outages

    The Commonwealth Bank acknowledged its automatic teller machine (ATM) and Netbank services were down for "a couple of hours" today and conceded late in the afternoon it was yet to find the cause of the problem.

  • ING banking takes a summer holiday

    update ING Direct has confirmed some customers' bank accounts were rendered inaccessible on Sunday, after a problem in the middleware layer of the bank's IT infrastructure caused an outage.

  • Westpac outage affects 200,000 customers

    At the time of writing, the front page of Westpac's Web site is currently out of action, causing angst for customers around the country.

  • Westpac blames blackout on software glitch

    Westpac is in serious damage control after its Internet banking service collapsed today, leaving 750,000 customers stranded.

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    Just as Internet users learn that clicking on a link in an e-mail purporting to come from their bank is a bad idea, phishers seem to be developing a new tactic -- launch a DDoS attack on the Web site of the company whose customers they are targeting and then send e-mails "explaining" the outage and offering an "alternative" URL.

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