Barclays customers were left in limbo for three days after technical issues left them unable to see balances or transactions
Barclays bank customers have been issued an urgent warning following a three-day outage, which left customers struggling. Services started to go down on Friday as an IT issue hit the bank's digital and mobile systems.
In an email it told them: "On Friday and across the weekend, you may have been affected by technical issues we had with some of our services. We started work immediately to fix them on Friday morning, but unfortunately it took longer than we hoped to have everything up and running again. But the firm also had an urgent warning for customers to take steps to make sure their accounts were safe from conmen. The firm said it was times such as these that people could be targeted.
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