Lloyds issues urgent warning to customers trying to make payments

According to work monitoring website Downdetector, issues started astatine 7am Monday. (Image: Getty)

Lloyds Bank and Halifax customers were the latest to beryllium deed by work outages aft issues with their systems were reported connected Monday morning.

Customers of some banks, which are portion of the Lloyds Banking Group, had issues making and receiving payments erstwhile utilizing their smartphone apps.

Customers took to X (formerly Twitter) to connection Lloyds, voicing their concerns. This came conscionable a time aft rival Barclays fixed a two-day outage contented with its banking app.

Wayne Grills wrote: "Why person nary payments gone into my accounts today? Yet Direct Debits person left. Once again, you person s*****d up and being vigor silent."

Sue from Lloyds Bank replied to Tweets: "We cognize immoderate customers are having issues making oregon receiving payments. Please bash not marque the outgo again."

Lloyds Bank added: "We’re atrocious for this and are moving to person everything backmost to normal.”

Last week, Barclays suffered an outage connected Friday that carried into the weekend. The slope denied it was a cyber attack, saying it was a “technology issue.”

Service monitoring website Downdetector reported issues with the Lloyds and Halifax apps astatine 7am connected Monday, and respective 100 radical reported issues with the 2 apps.

PA reported that Lloyds has not issued a connection confirming the origin of the problem, but banks person replied to customers raising concerns connected societal media.

Halifax replied to customers who straight complained to its authoritative societal media account.