Dutch tax office, several banks hit by DDoS cyber attacks

A number of online Rabobank services are unavailable on Monday due to a DDoS attack, the bank confirmed. Rabobank is the third Dutch bank affected by such a cyber attack since Saturday.

In a DDoS attack large amounts of data traffic is sent to a particular website, overloading its server and thereby crashing the site. According to Rabobank, some customers can currently not log into their mobile- and online banking. iDeal is also currently not available to everyone, a spokesperson for the bank told NU.nl.




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ABN Amro faced three such attacks over the weekend, according to the broadcaster. The latest started around noon on Sunday and lasted till 2:00 p.m., a spokesperson for the bank told NU.nl. He emphasized that clients' personal data was never in danger. The bank announced early on Monday morning that all its services are back online. "ABN Amro apologizes for the inconvenience. The safety of payment traffic and customer data was not in danger", the bank said in a short statement on Twitter.

ING was hit by one DDoS attack. The bank managed to fix the disruption within a few hours, according to NOS.

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The Dutch Tax Authority was hit by a DDoS attack on Monday, NOS reports. According to the tax service, its site was difficult to reach for a time on Monday morning, but everything should be working again. Three Dutch banks also faced such cyber attacks since Saturday.

Over the weekend ABN Amro was hit by multiple DDoS attacks, leaving its online services unavailable for hours at a time. ING reported such an attack on Sunday, and on Monday morning Rabobank also reported being hit by a DDoS attack.
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