{"id":338742,"date":"2025-12-10T05:36:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T05:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/338742\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T05:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T05:36:09","slug":"westpac-outage-affecting-thousands-of-customers-across-several-banks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/338742\/","title":{"rendered":"Westpac outage affecting thousands of customers across several banks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A widespread <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/westpac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Westpac \">Westpac<\/a> outage is affecting several banks it owns, leaving thousands of customers unable to use online banking services and eftpos terminals. \ufeff<\/p>\n<p>Westpac confirmed it is experiencing the issue this afternoon, but failed to say what is causing the problem.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re aware some customers are experiencing issues accessing banking services,&#8221; a spokesperson said. \ufeff<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/3dc22292-b485-41ee-a033-83ec30e355e5.jpeg\"   alt=\"\"\/>A widespread Westpac outage is affecting several banks. (Nine)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re working to restore services as quickly as possible and apologise to customers for the inconvenience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The same issue is also affecting St George, BankSA and Bank of Melbourne customers.<\/p>\n<p>According to DownDetector, customers began experiencing issues just before 1pm.<\/p>\n<p>At the peak, more than 1000 people reported an issue with their services. \ufeff<\/p>\n<p>Westpac also owns RAMS and BT, which are unaffected by today&#8217;s outage. \ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A widespread Westpac outage is affecting several banks it owns, leaving thousands of customers unable to use online&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-338742","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}