[telecom] Wells Fargo's website buckles under flood of traffic

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Wells Fargo's website buckles under flood of traffic

By Jeremy Kirk December 20, 2012 10:55 PM ET

In a statement, a bank spokeswoman described the issue as "An unusually high volume of traffic" that is causing slow or intermittent access to its website.

"The vast majority of customers are not impacted, but for those who are, we encourage them to access their accounts through our stores, ATMs or by phone as we work to resolve the issue," she wrote.

Wells Fargo is one of several banks that have been targeted with distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks over the last several months, which seek to jam websites with traffic to make them unavailable.