Ulster Bank fined £2.75m for IT disaster

Sooraj Shah
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IT outage in 2012 left 600,000 customers unable to access their accounts

RBS-owned Ulster Bank has been fined £2.75m by the Central Bank of Ireland following an IT outage that lasted a month and affected about 600,000 customers. The investigation found that there was...

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