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ALERT: Millions Left Without Money As UK Bank’s System Crashes!

Title says it all, however, there’s no word on what caused this. Anyone got specifics?

Is this just a glitch, or something more ominous? Any of our UK friends care to chime in?

from telegraph:

The group, which owns Royal Bank of Scotland, NatWest and the Bank of Ulster, apologised to its customers amid reports that they were unable to access their accounts or withdraw money.

The crash comes just months after a computer [...]

Thousands of Natwest customers left without access to their money after bank’s computer system crashes

The majority of the bank’s UK customers have been affected by IT blackout
Royal Bank of Scotland and Ulster Bank users also hit by glitch

Online and phone banking down, ATMs broken and card payments rejected

Customers have vented frustrations and threatened to quit for other banks
Last year millions were unable to use cards or move money for days
They were forced to set aside £125m compensation for those out of pocket

 

Millions of NatWest [...]

The town too dangerous for NatWest!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti…-11-years.html

The town too dangerous for NatWest! Century-old bank leaves London suburb after SEVENTH armed raid in 11 years

West Norwood branch, established in 1896, has left to preserve ‘health and safety’ of customers and staff
The branch is five minutes away from where singer Adele once lived
In days of the branch closing, a gang robbed the nearby Tesco Express and assaulted a member of staff in a nearby Tesco

This is where I [...]

Fury as NatWest warns bank glitch could drag on for days, Millions of Customers are worried about their credit rating!!!

RBS warns its 17 million customers that the backlog caused by a technical glitch could take at least another two days to clear, meaning that the computer failure will have lasted for more than a week.

Customers deluged online forums with complaints yesterday, saying that they were unable to pay bills and were concerned about the impact it could have on their credit ratings.

The crisis has hit customers at RBS and [...]

Natwest and RBS in UK Down – No money tranfers or Balance Checks !!! Ulster Bank In Ireland Too…Millions of customers unable to move money or pay bills as accounts freeze… for 3 days now!!!

RBS Natwest and Ulster Bank are not having a great day but later it’s likely to get worse and it’s the same for some of our other big banks http://www.itv.com/news/story/2012-06-21/natwest-suffers-technical-difficulties-meaning-no-online-missing-wages-and-angry-customers/   NatWest customers have taken to the front page of the bank’s website to complain about the loss of service. In the ‘Ideas Bank’ section, designed so that customers can be updated on ‘how we’re improving your bank’, customers have [...]