Commonwealth Bank users across Australia found themselves unable to make transactions today when the bank suffered a countrywide systems outage.
The Commonwealth Bank acknowledged its automatic teller machine (ATM) and Netbank services were down for "a couple of hours" today and conceded late in the afternoon it was yet to find the cause of the problem.
update ING Direct has confirmed some customers' bank accounts were rendered inaccessible on Sunday, after a problem in the middleware layer of the bank's IT infrastructure caused an outage.
At the time of writing, the front page of Westpac's Web site is currently out of action, causing angst for customers around the country.
Westpac is in serious damage control after its Internet banking service collapsed today, leaving 750,000 customers stranded.
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