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Any other FNBers hit by this? Luckily I am with Absa for personal banking, but our business banking is down, credit and petrol cards are down, local branch is closed. There are some irate clients on the Facebook page. Steve must be having a field day.
It was working yesterday.
First National Bank’s (FNB) online banking woes continued this morning when its cellphone banking service was on the blink. This follows a total online banking outage on Tuesday afternoon.
Twitter was abuzz this morning with comments like “seems like everything is down again with FNB. This is really not on” and “FNB down again. I don’t believe it”.
On its official Twitter account FNB confirmed that their cellphone banking service is experiencing problems.
FNB however highlighted that their ATMs, card transactions and online banking services were all operational this morning.
Many FNB customers however reported problems with the online banking facility, and one users even posted a screenshot of the online banking outage.
Initial indications are that a failure in the FNB data centre is to blame for the outage. “We are experiencing residual system issues as a result of Tuesdays downtime,” FNB said.
FNB CEO Michael Jordaan explained on Twitter that an “11 500 Volt electricity spike hit our main production and backup system on Tuesday afternoon. Now moving to backup of backup system.”
I think Steve flooded FNB with to many recruits...
I love how the power spike killed the backups as well.
JUSTICE, n A commodity which is a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service.
Same here. I have to EFT a COD supplier a carp load of money and cannot do so. And since they're with FNB as well, I'm severely stuffed.
And this is the third time this year.
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En my woorde was nog nie eens koud nie.
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A surprising amount of modern pseudoscience is coming out of the environmental sector. Perhaps it should not be so surprising given that environmentalism is political rather than scientific.
Timothy Casey
ryanrich wrote:Apparently what caused all of this was a 12,000 KVA power surge to their primary and backup systems, which is 8 times the average lightning strike.
A surprising amount of modern pseudoscience is coming out of the environmental sector. Perhaps it should not be so surprising given that environmentalism is political rather than scientific.
Timothy Casey
doo_much wrote:
Both personal AND business accounts.
Loose bolt?
JUSTICE, n A commodity which is a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service.
A surprising amount of modern pseudoscience is coming out of the environmental sector. Perhaps it should not be so surprising given that environmentalism is political rather than scientific.
Timothy Casey
