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Thousands report Lloyds, Halifax and TSB banking apps not working
- lambdaone 2y agoAccording to the Register, it's Lloyds Bank, Halifax, TSB, Nationwide, First Direct, Bank of Scotland, and Barclays. Interestingly, all the banks seem to have the exact same notice on their websites about this. (See https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/28/payday_from_hell_as_several/ https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/28/payday_from_hell_as_s... ) None of the reporting on this seems to report a cause for what might be behind this. A concerted DDoS campaign? Failure of some shared common facility? Nation-state-level hacking?
- londons_explore 2y agoI assume it'll be a failure of a service provider - for example some anti-fraud service which is called with every login.
- lambdaone 2y agoLloyds, Halifax, Bank of Scotland and TSB are all subsidiaries of the same organization, so will likely share infrastructure. But First Direct (which I believe are part of HSBC), Barclays, and Nationwide are not, and I believe are all unrelated to one another.
- disposable2020 2y agoTSB was sold off years ago and is separate. Lloyds, Halifax, BoS, MBNA UK share common infrastructure. On top of that there will be concentration risk of SaaS vendors between banks...