EU eyes spot checks as Lloyds Bank hit by cyber attack

The EU is considering testing banks’ defences against cyber attacks, EU officials said, as concerns grow about the industry’s vulnerability to hacking.

It emerged yesterday that Lloyds Bank is working with law enforcement agencies to trace who may be behind a cyber attack that caused intermittent outages for customers of its personal banking websites almost two weeks ago, according to a source.

Lloyds said it would not speculate on the cause of the attack. No customers suffered any losses.