Bank of America Is Down: Users Report Their Accounts Showing Empty Balance (independent.co.uk) 33
schwit1 shares a report from The Independent: Thousands of Bank of America customers reported trouble accessing their bank accounts Wednesday afternoon as the financial institution faced a widespread outage. On social media, customers said they could not view their account balances. Those who could view their accounts said they were met with an alarming $0 balance. For many, a "Connection Error" message popped up while trying to log into the banking app. The message said it was "unable to complete your request" and asked the user to "try again later."
By 1:15 p.m. Eastern Time, nearly 20,000 customers said they were having trouble, according to Downdetector, which reports web outages. That number dropped before rising again around 2:45 p.m. ET. It is unclear what caused the outage
By 1:15 p.m. Eastern Time, nearly 20,000 customers said they were having trouble, according to Downdetector, which reports web outages. That number dropped before rising again around 2:45 p.m. ET. It is unclear what caused the outage
bad update (Score:3)
I logged in to check. It works for me but there is shiny new redecorating on the site. Easy to guess there was a deployment problem they could recover from relatively quickly.
Re:bad update (Score:5, Funny)
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but there is shiny new redecorating on the site
Any chance that this wasn't a hack but a poorly tested/installed web upgrade?
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I just checked (Score:5, Funny)
The cash and bullion in my mechanical safe are still there. Just sayin'...
Re:I just checked (Score:5, Funny)
You say that, but there was nothing there after I took a look at it.
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https://img1.etsystatic.com/00... [etsystatic.com]
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I drilled through the back of your safe, so that you wouldn't notice from the front. I'm not sure how those minor league baseball trading cards are going to fund your retirement...
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The cash and bullion in my mechanical safe are still there. Just sayin'...
Pft. Kid's stuff. Go ahead and steal my shit, my gold-pressed latinum is insured by order of the Grand Nagus himself!
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A contract is a contract is a contract... but only between Ferengi.
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The cash and bullion in my mechanical safe are still there. Just sayin'...
Not for long [yahoo.com].
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I'd like to confirm their security....
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The cash and bullion in my mechanical safe are still there. Just sayin'...
Yeah but there it's worth a little less every day compared to keeping it in a bank. Just sayin'
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That may be true for the cash, but not for the bullion. Bullion has been increasing in value for decades. (OTOH, it's a bit difficult to buy chewing gum with it.)
just wait until microserf (Score:1)
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Print is dead (Score:4, Funny)
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Not sure if you are being sarcastic, ironic, or moronic.
Re: Print is dead (Score:2)
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Not sure if you are being sarcastic, ironic, or moronic.
There must a relevant emoji that is useful for moments like this. Surely your post could've been an emoji [geekbot.com].
The default display ... (Score:3)
... should be "loading ...", not $0. Until you actually retrieve the data.
The real world is not the docker container on your laptop.
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Re: The default display ... (Score:2)
IME these kind of stunts are disturbingly common. The last time I tried to check the balance of a Kroger gift card while using a VPN I noted it reported that the balance is $0 instead of giving a proper error. After disconnecting it gave the correct amount.
Volt Typhoon (Score:1)
Could be a relieve for many? (Score:1)
$0 sounds better than a red $40,000 or a minus $35,000.
Berkeley Breathed nailed this decades ago (Score:2)
Obligatory Bloom County from my youth:
https://www.reddit.com/r/BloomCounty/comments/1dvwdl5/avast_ye_scurvy_dogs_bank_of_america_is_about_to/
hahahahaha (Score:1)
I think everyone who could not legitimately access their money, should charge Bank of America an "overdraft protection fee" of idk $1,999.99 per instance.
oh wait that's not how it works. oh well. maybe the government will give them a stern talking to. maybe; we wouldn't want to hurt their feelings after all. HAHAHAHAHAHA
Deja Vu: Mr. Robot (2016) (Score:2)
Mr Robot Season 2 Premiere Review [denofgeek.com]: "A woman is in line at Evil Corp's Bank of E, desperately trying to show the teller behind the counter that she has paid off all her bills with the bank but the teller isn't having it. The teller says that since F Society hacked into Evil Corp's systems and erased all of their consumers' debts, people have been presenting falsified documents showing that they've paid off their debts."