There has been a lot of problems accessing Bank of America Online today for people in most states. At first it was believed that the site was only offline for people in Maryland, Michigan, California and a few other states. However that doesn’t appear to be the case. The online sign in for bankofamerica.com seemed to be down for most locations in the U.S.The website appears to be coming back for most people. More than likely if it is still down for you, it should be up relatively shortly. It is probably just an issue with delayed DNS caching.
Someone believed to be from Bank of America released the following statement on twitter, “We are diligently working to fix the issue and our teams are fully engaged to have the website up and running as soon as possible.”
The website has been down for over 3 hours for some banking clients, but many are now able to access the site. There has been a lot of downtime with other banking websites as of late. Usually the cause is nothing serious, and they are back up and running pretty quickly.
The Bank of America online glitch that occurred on Wednesday had online gamblers again thinking that their accounts may have been frozen because of the new online gambling laws in the US. That was not the case as Bank of America quickly corrected the glitch and customers were once again able to access their accounts.
The financial institutions in the US have seen a heavy burden been placed on their shoulders with the UIGEA. The law places the burden of stopping online gambling transactions on banks, even though some of the biggest financial institutions in the country warned the government that it would be nearly impossible to complete the task.
Representative Barney Frank is expected to begin the markup process on legislation that would overturn the UIGEA and set up a regulated Internet gambling system in the US. Rep. Frank already has almost seventy co-sponsors for his bill, and more are expected as the legislation hits the debate stage.
