{"id":471401,"date":"2026-03-12T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T12:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/471401\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T12:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T12:00:11","slug":"lloyds-bank-investigating-technical-glitch-after-rogue-transactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/471401\/","title":{"rendered":"Lloyds Bank investigating &#8216;technical glitch&#8217; after rogue transactions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tThursday 12 March 2026 8:45 am<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0Updated:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tThursday 12 March 2026 10:47 am\n\t<\/p>\n<p><img width=\"742\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Lloyds-Bank-1200-x800-2.webp.png\" class=\"media \" alt=\"Lloyds Banking Group owns the UK's largest motor finance lender Black Horse.\" fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\"  \/>\t\tLloyds Banking Group owns Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland.\t<\/p>\n<p>Lloyds Banking Group is looking into a \u201ctechnical glitch\u201d that left users of the bank\u2019s app on Thursday morning seeing other users\u2019 transactions on their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityam.com\/monzo-outage-hits-app-as-digital-bank-wobbles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">mobile app.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityam.com\/lloyds-to-close-95-more-bank-branches-across-uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">group<\/a> \u2013 which consists of Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland \u2013 responded to concerned customers on X in the early morning that it was looking into the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Customers across the bank shared screenshots on social media of a series of transaction on their mobile app that did not belong to them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are currently investigating the issue and it may be the result of a technical glitch,\u201d the Lloyds Banking account responded to one customers, before stating the account was \u201ccompletely safe\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>One X user wrote: \u201cAlmost had a heart attack. I logged into my Lloyds Bank and had thousands of transactions that were not mine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I refreshed they disappeared.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another said when their dad logged on the app it \u201cshowed all the details for a lady from incomings, outgoings &amp; account number\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>The saga has raised major concerns across users over potential sharing of personal data.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tRead more<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a class=\"read-more__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cityam.com\/lloyds-to-close-95-more-bank-branches-across-uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Lloyds to close 95 more bank branches across UK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\tMartin Lewis weighs in on Lloyds drama<\/p>\n<p>Personal finance guru Martin Lewis weighed in on the debacle urging his legion of followers to provide further updates on if they were effected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to see how widespread this is,\u201d Lewis wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p>One respondent to the post said: \u201cYou could see names of the incoming \/ outgoings but I didn\u2019t click on them to see more details. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithin a few seconds of being on the app, it reverted back to normal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Lloyds Banking Group said: \u201cWe\u2019re sorry that some customers experienced an issue viewing transactions in the app for a short time this morning. The issue was quickly resolved and we\u2019re looking into what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The group faced an outage <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityam.com\/lloyds-app-down-thousands-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">last February as users of the bank\u2019s subsidiaries<\/a> raised the alarm posting error notices across social media.<\/p>\n<p>Several other users raised they had not been able to access their accounts, despite needing to make critical payments.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tRead more<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a class=\"read-more__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cityam.com\/lloyds-offloads-scottish-widows-europe-in-220m-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Lloyds offloads Scottish Widows Europe in \u00a3100m deal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\tSimilarly tagged content: <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tSections\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tCategories\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tPeople &amp; Organisations\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday 12 March 2026 8:45 am \u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0Updated:\u00a0 Thursday 12 March 2026 10:47 am Lloyds Banking Group owns Lloyds,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[11698,116248,168500,168501,1340,894,84,1109,168502,59,16821,4811,168503,47529,109042,88479,168504,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-471401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-bank","tag-bank-accounts","tag-bank-fraud","tag-bank-outages","tag-banking","tag-banks","tag-business","tag-digital","tag-digital-banks","tag-gb","tag-lloyds","tag-lloyds-bank","tag-lloyds-bank-commercial-banking","tag-lloyds-banking","tag-lloyds-banking-group","tag-mobile-contracts","tag-mobile-outage","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}