Nationwide building society is recovering from an IT outage that caused significant difficulties for customers over a period of several hours, with account holders reporting problems making purchases and sending and receiving payments, including making mortgage payments and receiving salaries. The organisation, which on Thursday 21 March confirmed it had reached a formal agreement to… Continue reading Nationwide building society falls victim to IT outage
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Partial power outage at L.A.’s White Memorial Hospital prompts evacuations
A partial power outage overnight at Los Angeles’ White Memorial Hospital led to the evacuation of at least 30 “critical” patients and left nearly 250 patients in the dark, fire officials said. The outage was reported just after 11 p.m. Monday night at the hospital’s Specialty Care Center at its Boyle Heights campus. The tower… Continue reading Partial power outage at L.A.’s White Memorial Hospital prompts evacuations
Bank of England core system experiences six-hour outage
The Bank of England’s core IT system, which settles £775bn worth of UK payments a day, experienced a major outage due to a “technical issue”. The Real-Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) system, which settles payments between banks, was offline from the beginning of business on August 14 until after 16:00. RTGS settles payments made between… Continue reading Bank of England core system experiences six-hour outage