Bank Of America's Web Site And Online-Banking Services Inaccessible

Bank of America's Web site and online-banking services inaccessible for some users.


The Charlotte-based bank acknowledged the problem through its "BofA_Help" Twitter account, which has been serving up variations of the following for most of today:
We are aware of the issue and are working to resolve it as fast as possible. Please accept our apologies.


Twitter updates with the "#bofa" hashtag suggest this outage began before 8 this morning. The site wouldn't load about noon; more recently, it's been appearing exceedingly slowly, as if it were on the wrong end of a dial-up modem.


Bank of America experienced a similar outage in January of 2010, not long after it paid off a $45 billion government bailout. Conspiracy-minded readers may wish to note that in December of last year, BofA announced that it would no longer process money transfers to WikiLeaks -- which many people expect will soon publish some of the bank's internal documents. Similar cutoffs of Wikileaks by Visa and MasterCard earlier that month resulted in brief but successful denial-of-service attacks against those firms' sites.


Are you a BofA customer? How much trouble have you had using the bank's online services? And what's your guess about what's happened to its site?

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