Tech – Metro | Lloyds, RBS and Halifax as 2020 begins

This graphic shows that areas affected by the Halifax outage (Image: Down Detector)

A major outage has hit Halifax, Lloyds and RBS on New Year's Day, leaving vast numbers of Britons unable to access their accounts.

Online banking is currently down for customers with all three banks, who have taken to social media to vent their rage.

Huge swathes of Britain have been left unable to access their accounts on their computers or smartphone apps.

Halifax and Lloyds apologised for the 'issues' and insisted they are working on getting the services up and running again.

RBS, which is also part of the same company, has not yet released a statement.

A Lloyds social media spokesman tweeted: 'We know our customers are having issues with internet and mobile banking. We're sorry about this and we're working to have it back to normal soon.'

Unable to access my bank accounts via your app @LloydsBank

— Clair McDonald (@ClassicoDeCosta) January 1, 2020

It appears that the @HalifaxBank banking app has decided to take the Bank Holiday off work pic.twitter.com/lEDfCmL2JR

— Madvixen (@madvixen1983) January 1, 2020

A Lloyds spokesman also responded to a customer on Twitter and wrote: 'We know some of you are having issues with your Internet Banking.

'We're sorry for this. We're working to have it back to normal soon.'

One Halifax customer joked that the outage was probably a good thing because it stopped them seeing how much money had been spent on New Year's Eve.

They wrote: 'Lol Halifax online down. Trying to see my account expenditures last night.'

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