PNC Bank Blocks Some Online Customers while Combating Cyber Attacks

The bank sent an e-mail alerting customers that some may have lost online banking access in an attempt to block cyber attacks.

  While working to combat recent cyber attacks, PNC Bank sent an e-mail to customers apologizing for blocking a “small percentage” of customers from using its website for online banking, according to various news outlets. Online users of the Pittsburgh-based bank have had issues with the website since the fall, when a “hacktivist” group was targeting several banking institutions, including PNC. The cyber attacks consist of abnormally high amounts of traffic flooding banking websites, which prevent legitimate online banking users to access the sites, according to USA Today. While PNC has worked over several weeks to block the attacks, it has caused a different issue for some customers. "PNC has taken steps to block this traffic and maintain…

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Former Cop Pleads Guilty to Seven Bank Robberies

Carl Holliday, 33, of New Jersey, admitted to the robberies in two states, including a TD Bank robbery in Towamencin last December. He was previously convicted in 2008 for misconduct as an officer for his alleged involvement in an assault and kidnapping.

A New Jersey man and former police officer pleaded guilty March 17  to robbing seven banks, including a TD Bank in Towamencin on Dec. 9, 2010. Carl Holliday, 33, of Vineland, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Edwin Kosik to committing the robberies in Pennsylvania and New Jersey between July and December of 2010. Holliday also admitted robbing a Rite Aid Pharmacy in White Haven, PA, according to U.S. Attorney Peter J. Smith. The guilty plea carries a maximum penalty of 160 years in prison for all offenses, followed by a 24-year term of supervised release and a $2 million fine. Holliday was formerly employed as a police officer in Bridgeton, NJ, in 2006, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney's Office. According to an …

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