Google Cloud London outage disrupts Revolut payments and ATM withdrawals
Original title: Google Cloud Outage in London Disrupts Revolut Banking Services
Revolut says customer money and data are safe; Google was still investigating europe-west2.
Multiple Google Cloud services went offline in the London region, europe-west2, on Tuesday, according to Google's status page. Revolut reported card payments, ATM withdrawals, and most app services unavailable or partly unavailable across Europe. A person familiar with the matter told Reuters the bank's outage was tied to the cloud disruption. Revolut said customers' money and data are safe and that it has been working on the issue since morning. ING Germany separately reported login trouble; Reuters did not link that to Google Cloud.
Unconfirmed: A single unnamed source told Reuters the Revolut outage was caused by Google Cloud; ING's problems are not linked.
- Google's engineering team said it was investigating the London-region problem.
- Alphabet did not immediately respond to Reuters.
- Revolut has no branches and operates only as an app.
- The article says Revolut serves tens of millions of customers across Europe.
- ING has not explained the cause of its German online-banking problems.
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- Google Cloud
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- Revolut
- Organizations
- ING Germany
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- United KingdomGermany
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Google Cloud’s London outage disrupted Revolut payments and ATM withdrawals, while ING Germany reported online banking issues. Multiple Google Cloud services went offline in the London region this morning, according to Google’s status page, and the disruption didn’t stay contained to infrastructure dashboards. British digital bank Revolut reported a widespread service outage at roughly the […]
By Pierluigi Paganini · securityaffairs.com
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