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Hackers shut down ANZ, St George online brokerages

06/01/2012

An offshore cyber attack has forced ANZ bank to shut down its broking business ETrade and caused St George to close its Directshares online broking service.

ETrade sent an email to its customers yesterday: "You may have experienced issues accessing our website in recent weeks, particularly from overseas," the email said. "The performance of our website was impacted by external malicious activity in a denial-of-service attack. Importantly, at no stage was the security of the Etrade website breached."

Yesterday, St George revealed that its online trading service is provided by Etrade, so experienced the same disruption and shut-down procedures. ETrade shut down the business to various countries from December 19, bringing it back online following risk assessments.

Source: The Age



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