Lloyds, HSBC, Revolut and other banks down as outage hits Google Cloud
tekbog · x · 2026-10-20
Multiple banks including Lloyds, Revolut, Bank of Scotland and HSBC are down for some users, in what appears to be a Google Cloud issue. The poster notes that customer money in Revolut is safe — this is not a hack but a third-party infrastructure failure, underscoring how much financial services depend on a single cloud provider.
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