bank of america website totally down..

[snooper2]

no wonder the page won't load..:) it's pay day friday and end of month..time to pay bills beeyatches so get your shit back up :P


Bank of America website down, Bank of America online banking is not possible right now

29 January, 2010

Washington: Bank of America website down, Bank of America online banking is not possible right now. Bank of America Website is not accessible for the last several hours and harried clients are at their wits’ end what to do

http://www.khabrein.info/news/Bank_of_America_website_down__Bank_of_America_online_banking_is_not_possible_right_now_1264794172/

[jonathon]

1. Wow - i just went there myself -

[snooper2]

4. you can bet somebody's getting an ass chewing...

they spend more money than you can imagine on telecom and web services...100's of millions a year...

[slackmaster]

2. Maybe they shut it down so they could take my name and SSN off my ex-wife's Visa card

:argh:

[JuniperLea]

3. Well I certainly hope they reimburse their customers...

for any late charges they incur due to this FUBAR.

[bananas]

5. How To Access Your Account Online While Bank Of America's Website Is Down

Updated link in the article.

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-access-your-account-online-while-bank-of-americas-website-is-down-2010-1

How To Access Your Account Online While Bank Of America's Website Is Down
John Carney | Jan. 29, 2010, 3:23 PM | 3,430 | comment 14

Update (4:15 pm): Good news. We've found another way in through the mobile site. Click here.

Update (4:01 pm): Now the alternative site is down too!

Back to the drawing board.

Earlier:

Bank of America's website has been down most of the day.

And its help people aren't being very helpful. While most customers are unable to access their accounts, making end of the month bill paying impossible, the bank's twitter representatives insist that the website "is available."

We're curious how many times it has actually been loaded today. We haven't been able to get it to load all day. Note to Bank of America: don't tell customers your website is available when it is not.

It would be far more useful if the helper people on Twitter explained what has gone wrong and proposed workarounds for customers. We're not sure why they won't do that.

So we decided to find a way Bank of America customers can access their accounts online while the website is down. Turns out it is pretty easy. Just go the alternative Bank of America site. It is legitimately Bank of America's website and appears to be functioning properly.

[Better Today]

6. A person I know who works on such mainframes

recently commented that he crashed the entire backup system of Mastercard a few weeks ago during an upgrade, had to work 36 hours straight to fix it. . . but that's not my point, I would think that BofA would also have a backup system, one that runs totally congruently with every transaction such that a crash could only take down one system and not both. I know that Mastercard was not noticeably down when this fella crashed the backup system.

Perhaps it was the nature of the crash, but this sounds suspicious to me. I guess we will find out soon enough.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

7. A backup system might have the same bug as the primary system.

No way of knowing at this point.

[Better Today]

14. That's what I'm thinking. . a bug or a hack . . .as opposed to a hardware crash.

[frustrated_lefty]

8. Can be accessed through:

sitekey.bankofamerica.com/sas/signonScreen.do?state=FL

[thecrow]

9. Just tried it... doesn't work for me

[ddeclue]

10. A website that's "too big to fail"?

:shrug:

:rofl:

Now if the rest of BofFUA would go away too..

:rofl:

[L0oniX]

11. Not too big to be mega DOS'd.

[conscious evolution]

12. I wonder what they are scrubbing.

[rucky]

13. DDOS?