{"id":13595,"date":"2012-05-25T11:39:11","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T09:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=13595"},"modified":"2015-09-28T16:46:53","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T14:46:53","slug":"absa-online-banking-suffers-downtime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/13595\/absa-online-banking-suffers-downtime\/","title":{"rendered":"ABSA online banking suffers downtime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Absa Bank\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/358422-Absa\">ABSA<\/a> banking subscribers reported that the bank\u2019s Internet banking system is down for the second time this week.<\/p>\n<p>Users on social networks such as <a title=\"Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/359584-Twitter\">Twitter<\/a> and on the MyBroadband forums complained that they could not access their Internet banking services on Friday morning (25 May 2012).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny idea what&#8217;s happening with @absa online banking site this morning? Keeps telling me &#8220;Server Was Reset&#8221;. Problem my side or theirs?\u201d asked one Twitter user. \u201cDo #Absa Bank had a presence on Twitter? Their online banking is down&#8230;just want to find out how long it will be down for?\u201d asked another.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow that ABSA fired their IT staff we cannot do internet banking anymore. The system is off again this morning,\u201d said a MyBroadband forum member.<\/p>\n<p>ABSA was contacted for information about the outage, but the bank&#8217;s communications department did not wish to comment until it received feedback from the technical team.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_50993\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/ABSA-Internet-Banking-down.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-50993\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50993\" class=\"wp-image-50993 size-full\" title=\"ABSA Internet Banking down\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/ABSA-Internet-Banking-down.jpg\" alt=\"ABSA Internet Banking down\" width=\"600\" height=\"196\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-50993\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ABSA Internet Banking down<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related Articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Absa unveils revamped online banking\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/banking\/50739-absa-unveils-revamped-online-banking.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Absa unveils revamped online banking<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to 22seven will be blocked again: Absa\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/49833-22seven-will-be-blocked-again-absa.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">22seven will be blocked again: Absa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Legal threat against Stop Absa website\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/banking\/46794-legal-threat-against-stop-absa-website.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Legal threat against Stop Absa website<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to SA\u2019s top brands revealed\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/50943-sas-top-brands-revealed.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">SA\u2019s top brands revealed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABSA banking subscribers reported that the bank\u2019s Internet banking system is down for the second time this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":5758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[961],"tags":[29,25,2931,93],"class_list":["post-13595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking","tag-absa","tag-active","tag-mybroadband","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13595"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99570,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13595\/revisions\/99570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}