p2p news / p2pnet: Phishing sites are frequently hacked versions of legitimate web pages posted to trick the unwary into revealing highly personal and confidential information. Cleverly crafted emails are often used to get victims to the scam site.

Now a phishing attack has forced a major bank to close its web site to protect its customers.

The Bank of New Zealand went offline Thursday after, “fraudsters convinced a very small number of customers to disclose their personal information, and it is those customers who are potentially at risk,” says the country’s National Business Review.

The story quotes the bank as saying it’s now monitoring traffic for suspect transactions, and is working closely with working closely with the New Zealand Police, ISPs, other banks and international law enforcement agencies on the phishing attack.

Bank of New Zealand chief information officer Peter Fletcher, “said the measures were for customer protection, including anyone who “may have responded to the scam and is yet to contact us,” says the National Business Review, adding:

“We are putting these measures in place to provide an opportunity for those customers who may have responded to the fraudulent email to make contact with us so that we can facilitate new access codes and passwords.”

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See:-
National Business Review – BNZ reacts to phishing attack, October 21, 2005

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