...I can't imagine a financial company would ever actually take down their main site and claim to have been compromised just as a joke. For one thing, it's not

...I can't imagine a financial company would ever actually take down their main site and claim to have been compromised just as a joke. For one thing, it's not even funny, so where's the joke? And second, it's obviously really bad for business. I think it's safe to assume this is real.