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Westpac Outage Disrupts EFTPOS and Online Banking After Midday

The bank says an investigation is underway.

Overview

  • Customers began reporting problems shortly after 12:30pm, with DownDetector showing a spike just before 1pm.
  • Westpac confirmed intermittent access issues and highlighted impacts to merchant terminals handling card payments.
  • A spokesperson said crews are working to restore services as quickly as possible and issued an apology to customers.
  • Crowd-sourced trackers and media reports recorded between roughly 1,000 and more than 3,000 user reports at peak.
  • NAB and Commonwealth Bank services were reported to be operating normally during the disruption.