{"id":55345,"date":"2026-06-03T14:19:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T14:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/55345\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T14:19:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T14:19:05","slug":"banking-apps-down-latest-lloyds-halifax-and-bank-of-scotland-customers-hit-by-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/55345\/","title":{"rendered":"Banking apps down latest: Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland customers hit by outage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thousands of Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland customers<\/a> have been unable to access their accounts on Wednesday as the banking apps went down.<\/p>\n

According to Downdetector, the majority of reports are relating to the Lloyds and Halifax banking apps.<\/p>\n

65% of reported problems are with the banking apps, 13% relate to logging in, and 13% reported an issue with online banking.<\/p>\n

A number of frantic customers have posted online, saying they were unable to make any payments<\/a>, either via their cards, online banking or app.<\/p>\n

Downdetector, an online platform which provides real-time information about the status of various websites and services<\/a>, showed that the spike of complaints began at around 11am on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n

\"Downdetector<\/p>\n

Downdetector shows that issues began at around 11am (Downdetector)<\/p>\n

At it\u2019s peak at around 12.30pm, there were almost 5,000 complaints made on the tracking site.<\/p>\n

Both Lloyds and Halifax have posted on social media<\/a> to apologise for the outages, saying they are working to fix the problems.<\/p>\n

Both account posted identical messages to X, writing: \u201cWe\u2019re aware some customers are having issues with our app and online banking. We\u2019re really sorry about this. We\u2019re working hard to fix it and will let you know as soon as we\u2019re back to normal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Customers also took to social media to complain.<\/p>\n

One wrote: “Can’t buy any lunch on my only break in work today”, with another posting: “Trying to sell a car, can’t access my account to accept bank transfer, what a useless bank!”<\/p>\n

Another couldn\u2019t pay for their food shop, writing: “Stood in Sainsbury’s,<\/a> basket of food, and I can’t access my money.”<\/p>\n

It comes after almost half a million Lloyds customers saw other people’s transactions or had their own data shared, due to an IT glitch in March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands of Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland customers have been unable to access their accounts on Wednesday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[21256],"tags":[20085,3351,27190,4514,27189,3692,2861,27176],"class_list":["post-55345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lloyds-banking-group","tag-bank-of-scotland","tag-customers","tag-downdetector","tag-halifax","tag-halifax-banking","tag-lloyds","tag-lloyds-banking-group","tag-online-banking"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116686616133159547","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}