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Revolut down – Global ATM withdrawals and bank transfers failing

15 pointsTomAnthony7 comments

Revolut has been down almost an hour, with ATM withdrawals across multiple countries failing, bank transfers not working, and various failures in the app.

Their status page reports all green, but they have confirmed the issue in replies on Twitter.

https://x.com/TomAnthonySEO/status/2112440392591278217

https://www.reddit.com/r/Revolut/comments/1xaklod/is_revolut_down/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Revolut/comments/1xakl5m/na_revolut_seems_to_be_down/

https://x.com/Mister_J_91/status/2112427993624981921

https://x.com/bygerach/status/2112435316724236390

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Google Cloud outage: https://status.cloud.google.com/index.html#status-table

Revolut uses Google Cloud: https://cloud.google.com/customers/revolut

So this is what it feels like to enter a world of financial anxiety due to AI-enabled attacks against banks. No idea as to what caused the service outage, but I've felt like it's just a matter of time before AI was used to try to breach a financial institution, which just so happens to hold a lot of my money.

Revolut Business is also down, which does business banking including payment terminals & online subscription processing, so this is going to disable quite a few businesses, in addition to normal consumer payment flows.

They've been expanding hard across Europe recently, this might dent people's confidence in these new fangled neobanks a bit...

From their last filings, they have 70+ million individual customers, 850k business customers. Highest in the UK: about 13 million, so nearly 20% of the population. Ouch.

I confirm, first down for me after 4 years of usage. Got little scared at first that I had my account blocked...

Their status page is now updated, but it got them some while. This looks pretty major.

https://www.revolut.com/en-US/system-status/

That’s the first time a service goes down that hard?

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