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Banamex Mobile App Outage Causes Nationwide Login Failures on Key Payroll Day

The bank says technicians are working to restore service after widespread authentication errors blocked access for many users.

Overview

  • Banamex publicly acknowledged a general system intermitency and asked customers to try later, offering no estimated time to resolution.
  • Downdetector recorded hundreds of reports during the morning, with over 500 complaints at one point and a majority tied to sign-in issues reported at 67%–72%.
  • Reports were concentrated in major urban areas including Mexico City, Guadalajara, Monterrey and Mérida, with higher counts in Jalisco, Nuevo León and Yucatán.
  • Users shared screenshots showing a validateLogin circuit breaker in a HALF_OPEN state and messages about server communication problems.
  • The disruption struck during the second December quincena and the week of aguinaldo, prompting sharp social-media complaints from customers unable to complete transfers or urgent payments.