"The State Bank of India, the country’s largest bank, has had to shut
down its corporate website after overseas hackers tried to break in.
While the bank said that transactions took place through
http://www.onlinesbi.com, a senior SBI source said that the transactions were
slow as the entire system was under watch.
The country’s largest bank decided to shut down its corporate
website http://www.sbi.co.in on Wednesday evening when hackers blocked some of
the pages. The bank also noticed unusually high traffic on its website
on Wednesday.
Subsequently, the website was blocked with a ‘service unavailable’ or ‘our site is under maintenance’ pasted on http://www.sbi.co.in.
“We have informed the Reserve Bank of India and the cyber cell of
the Mumbai Police, which are looking into the issue,” said a senior
bank executive. The police and SBI suspect that the hackers are based
overseas.
A Mumbai Police officer said that the cyber cell was investigating
the complaint but did not share details: “It is big and the
implications may be large.”
SBI sources, on their part, said that no evidence has been found of
loss of data or consumers getting affected. “We suspect that the
hackers wanted some information from the website and disrupt the whole
system,” an executive, who did not wish to be named, said."
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