Faulty Patch Freezes Millions of UK Bank Accounts

Posted by timothy on Friday June 22, 2012 @03:31AM from the cuba-will-send-doctors dept.

frisket writes with news from The Register about ongoing problems for some UK banks: "'RBS and Natwest have failed to register inbound payments for up to three days, customers have reported, leaving people unable to pay for bills, travel and even food. The banks — both owned by RBS Group — have confirmed that technical glitches have left bank accounts displaying the wrong balances and certain services unavailable. There is no fix date available.' Customers of NatWest subsidiary Ulster Bank in Ireland have also been left without banking services. RTE reports that 'the problem had arisen within the systems of parent bank RBOS when an incorrect patch was applied.'"

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That's one way ... by ackthpt · 2012-06-22 03:45 · Score: 5, Funny

To prevent another run on UK banks.

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Re:Aargh by TheSpoom · 2012-06-22 03:51 · Score: 5, Funny

This is not a mundane detail, Michael!

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