{"id":451020,"date":"2022-07-01T14:20:24","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T12:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=451020"},"modified":"2022-07-01T16:32:53","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T14:32:53","slug":"huge-fnb-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/banking\/451020-huge-fnb-outage.html","title":{"rendered":"Huge FNB outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FNB has been hit by a major outage affecting its Internet banking, mobile app, and card transactions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/downdetector.co.za\/status\/fnb\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Downdetector showed<\/strong><\/a> a surge in reports from around noon on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Most users flagged their issues as being related to online and mobile banking, as well as mobile login.<\/p>\n<p>On Twitter, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=FNB%20&amp;src=typed_query&amp;f=live\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>numerous users reported<\/strong><\/a> being unable to log in to their Internet banking or mobile app.<\/p>\n<p>Several FNB customers also complained they could not transact online or at physical pay points.<\/p>\n<p>An FNB Premier customer in the MyBroadband office received the following message when trying to log in to the mobile app on an Android smartphone:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Your request cannot be processed. System currently unavailable. Please try again later.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A screenshot of the message is shown below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/FNB-app-down.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-451032\" src=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/FNB-app-down-400x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/FNB-app-down-400x533.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/FNB-app-down-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/FNB-app-down-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/FNB-app-down-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/FNB-app-down-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/FNB-app-down-1200x1600.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/FNB-app-down.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The same customer was able to log in to his Internet banking profile but was presented with a notice stating that FNB was performing maintenance and that functionality was limited.<\/p>\n<p>The bank also advised against performing transactions as they would not be reflected immediately, which could lead to duplication.<\/p>\n<p>The customer also noticed the balance sections of his accounts were not reflecting any amounts, although his &#8220;Available balance&#8221; reflected accurately.<\/p>\n<p>FNB acknowledged it had &#8220;limited functionality&#8221; on its digital channels in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FNBSA\/status\/1542823990225506304\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>post on its Twitter page<\/strong><\/a> at 12:54 PM.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We sincerely apologise for the limited functionality on our digital channels. Our IT teams are working hard to urgently restore full functionality on the affected channels.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It provided the same response to a query sent by MyBroadband.<\/p>\n<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rbjacobs\/status\/1542843248003227651\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>FNB support agent advised<\/strong><\/a> one of the impacted customers that cellphone banking was working normally.<\/p>\n<p>The graph below shows the increase in reports of issues with FNB on Downdetector on Friday, 1 July 2022.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/FNB-downtime-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-451028\" src=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/FNB-downtime-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/FNB-downtime-.jpg 800w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/FNB-downtime--600x240.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/FNB-downtime--768x307.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Update \u2014 Friday 16:16<\/h3>\n<p>FNB says its IT teams have restored all the affected services and that customers should be able to access them normally.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;FNB sincerely apologises to customers who were unable to access full functionality on our digital channels and some card services earlier today,&#8221; the bank said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Any customer who continues to experience issues with our services can contact us directly for assistance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/banking\/450798-fnb-launches-huge-fuel-rewards-boost-as-south-africa-faces-petrol-price-hike.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">FNB launches huge fuel rewards boost as South Africa faces petrol price hike<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FNB has been hit by a major outage affecting its Internet banking, mobile app, and card transactions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341042,"featured_media":425276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10106],"tags":[60385,70405,59487,1313,35],"class_list":["post-451020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking","tag-banking-apps","tag-banking-outage","tag-downdetector","tag-fnb","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451020"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341042"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":451068,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451020\/revisions\/451068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}