Capital One Financial Corp. said it was the latest target in a new round of coordinated cyber attacks aimed at disrupting the websites of major U.S. banks, and SunTrust Banks Inc. and Regions Financial Corp. said they expect to be next.

Pam Girardo, a spokeswoman for McLean, Virginia-based Capital One, confirmed in an e-mail statement yesterday that the bank's online systems were disrupted and later that most online services had been restored.

"At this point, we have no reason to believe that customer and account information is at risk," she said in the earlier statement.

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