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Offline Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons)

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Quote of the day.
« on: June 26, 2012, 06:44:28 AM »
Woman on BBC Breakfast: "it's not that your NatWest money isn't there, it's just that you can't see it."
The Schrodinger's Cat of banking?

Courtesy of Twitter.
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Re: Quote of the day.
« Reply #1 on: June 26, 2012, 06:50:04 AM »
I went to the bank on Sunday. Was mental, mental chicken oriental in there. Got a message yesterday morning saying that it had all been fixed. Tried to check account ...no joy. Got another message yesterday afternoon saying was fecked still  evil:
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Re: Quote of the day.
« Reply #2 on: June 26, 2012, 07:45:15 AM »
As far as I am aware this 'problem' started in the middle of the day 'whilst an upgrade was being executed.  No large company/institution would do that it would be done during the night when it was less busy.

I rather suspect that we are not being told the truth and that this is some sort of cyber attack.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18586681
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Re: Quote of the day.
« Reply #3 on: June 26, 2012, 08:05:52 AM »
Quote from: Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons) on June 26, 2012, 07:45:15 AM
As far as I am aware this 'problem' started in the middle of the day 'whilst an upgrade was being executed.  No large company/institution would do that it would be done during the night when it was less busy.

I rather suspect that we are not being told the truth and that this is some sort of cyber attack.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18586681

Ooooh! I love a conspiracy theory. Popcorn:
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Re: Quote of the day.
« Reply #4 on: June 26, 2012, 08:10:37 AM »
Never mind vyber attacks - I think it's probably got more to do with the fact that they recently shoved a couple of thousand workers out the door, and presumably 'out sourced' the work they used to do to an outfit in loin cloths with a laptop in Mumbai or wherever.

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Re: Quote of the day.
« Reply #5 on: June 26, 2012, 10:34:08 AM »
Quote from: Marley's Ghost (Imbiber of Spirits) on June 26, 2012, 08:10:37 AM
Never mind vyber attacks - I think it's probably got more to do with the fact that they recently shoved a couple of thousand workers out the door, and presumably 'out sourced' the work they used to do to an outfit in loin cloths with a laptop in Mumbai or wherever.

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TMR and Tel are very quiet on the subject . . . .
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Re: Quote of the day.
« Reply #6 on: June 26, 2012, 12:12:15 PM »
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2164664/NatWest-glitch-Computer-caused-chaos-thousands-supervised-India.html

Told you!

Second bullet point covers it, and in the article in the real paper, they speculate that this may well have been the root cause.

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