Major banks including Barclays, Halifax, Lloyds, Nationwide and Monzo have locked customers out of their online bank accounts this morning. Thousands of customers have been reporting the issues at multiple banks on outages website DownDetector.
The banks currently affected are Barclays, Bank of Scotland, Halifax, Lloyds, HSBC, Santander, Nationwide, NatWest, Monzo and Yorkshire Bank. The customers are reporting problems with transferring funds, online banking and mobile banking apps.
As a result of the outage some households have been left unable to buy food or pay bills as a result of the outage. The issues started being logged by customers at around 6am this morning (June 1) reports The Mirror.
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Customers flocked to social media to report problems with their online banking. One Barclays customer said: "Hi I transferred money to my husband's Barclays account to pay bills and I also paid my credit card bill but neither is showing on my account."
A NatWest customer said: "Are there issues with the app? Transferred money at 7am for food shopping, and it still hasn't arrived in my account."
A Santander spokesperson said: "We’re aware that our customers are currently experiencing issues with making and receiving Faster Payments. We are very sorry for the inconvenience this is causing and we’re working hard to fix the problem. Other payment services are unaffected."
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