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2012-10-21 — telegraph.co.uk
An unknown group launched a so-called "denial of service" attack on Britain's largest bank on Thursday evening, crashing web-based services for about seven hours.
At its peak, HSBC was deluged with internet traffic 500 times its normal level, five times higher than the amount of traffic that hit the bank in a similar attack earlier this year.
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