The bank notified customers early yesterday afternoon that there was an issue with its online app and personal banking website, after being flooded with complaints.
And by the evening, customers had detected that they could access cash from ATMs despite having low levels of funds. Gardaí were instructed to clear the queues from ATMs as people lined up to take advantage of the glitch.
Thousands of people were last night queuing around the block outside some branches to withdraw money that they did not have in their own accounts.
A source said: ‘Word started filtering through after 5pm that this was happening and it spread like wildfire. There are people with no overdrafts being able to take out a grand that they don’t have.”
[It turns out that TANSTAAFL was wrong — there IS such a thing as a free lunch! Or is there? One imagines that the bank will eventually catch up to these overdrafts and pursue them vigorously. Banks tend to do that, even when they themselves glitch. — Ed]
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