Bank of America Is Down: Users Report Their Accounts Showing Empty Balance (independent.co.uk)
(Wednesday October 02, 2024 @05:45PM (BeauHD)
from the widespread-outages dept.)
- Reference: 0175180985
- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/10/02/2116227/bank-of-america-is-down-users-report-their-accounts-showing-empty-balance
- Source link: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/bank-of-america-outage-down-b2622878.html
[1]schwit1 shares a report from The Independent:
> Thousands of Bank of America customers [2]reported trouble accessing their bank accounts Wednesday afternoon as the financial institution faced a widespread outage. On social media, customers said they [3]could not view their account balances . Those who could view their accounts said they were met with an [4]alarming $0 balance . For many, a "Connection Error" message popped up while trying to log into the banking app. The message said it was "unable to complete your request" and asked the user to "try again later."
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> By 1:15 p.m. Eastern Time, nearly 20,000 customers said they were having trouble, according to [5]Downdetector , which reports web outages. That number dropped before rising again around 2:45 p.m. ET. It is unclear what caused the outage
[1] https://slashdot.org/~schwit1
[2] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/bank-of-america-outage-down-b2622878.html
[3] https://x.com/iamandyholt/status/1841523151303229595
[4] https://x.com/GermaricanMix/status/1841537995637399711
[5] https://downdetector.com/status/bank-of-america/
> Thousands of Bank of America customers [2]reported trouble accessing their bank accounts Wednesday afternoon as the financial institution faced a widespread outage. On social media, customers said they [3]could not view their account balances . Those who could view their accounts said they were met with an [4]alarming $0 balance . For many, a "Connection Error" message popped up while trying to log into the banking app. The message said it was "unable to complete your request" and asked the user to "try again later."
>
> By 1:15 p.m. Eastern Time, nearly 20,000 customers said they were having trouble, according to [5]Downdetector , which reports web outages. That number dropped before rising again around 2:45 p.m. ET. It is unclear what caused the outage
[1] https://slashdot.org/~schwit1
[2] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/bank-of-america-outage-down-b2622878.html
[3] https://x.com/iamandyholt/status/1841523151303229595
[4] https://x.com/GermaricanMix/status/1841537995637399711
[5] https://downdetector.com/status/bank-of-america/
I just checked (Score:2)
by Rosco P. Coltrane ( 209368 )
The cash and bullion in my mechanical safe are still there. Just sayin'...
bad update (Score:2)
I logged in to check. It works for me but there is shiny new redecorating on the site. Easy to guess there was a deployment problem they could recover from relatively quickly.