Now if you bank with Natwest or RBS Im sure you are aware of all the problems that occurred over the weekend with Online banking and statements not being updated etc etc..
Well finally the company have come up with an 'explanation' to the problem blaming it on an “inexperienced operative”
We are still a bit sceptical down here at the Glide Blog office considering whether to change banks after this glitch!
Read the full story below!
The computer glitch at the Royal Bank of Scotland (LSE: RBS.L - news) which left millions of customers unable to access their accounts could have been caused by just one junior technician in India, it was suggested last night.
The “inexperienced operative” accidentally wiped information during a routine software upgrade, it has been claimed.
The member of staff, who was working on the programme for the Royal Bank of Scotland, NatWest and Ulster Bank, is believed to have been based in Hyderabad, India.
According to technology website The Register, at least some of the team responsible for the error were recruited in India following redundancies in the department in the UK.
Unions have already blamed the fiasco on the decision to outsource much of the company’s IT jobs , as Indian staff are paid as little as £9,000, compared with £50,000 their British counterparts were paid.
Stephen Hester, chief executive of RBS , said that there was “no evidence” that outsourcing had caused the problems.
He said: “The IT centre in Edinburgh is our main centre, it is nothing to do with overseas. Things go wrong. Things go wrong in technology.
“We have to learn the lessons from what went wrong here and try to make then less likely to happen in the future.”
The error is understood to have occurred after a software update froze part of the banks’ computer systems last Wednesday, affecting 17 million customers.
Although the problem was resolved on Friday, it created a backlog of more than 100 million transactions that were not paid in or out of bank accounts as they should have been.
Deleted information then had to be painstakingly re-entered into the bank group’s computer system.
A source, who worked for RBS for “several years”, told the Register an “inexperienced operative” had made an error while performing the relatively routine task of backing out of an upgrade.
He said: “When they did the back-out, a major error was made. An inexperienced person cleared the whole queue ... they erased all the scheduling.”
RBS have not yet commented on the claims.
'Yahoo News.'
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