Heavy inconvenience and problems on the Friday before Easter for electronic payments. Several reports from users from all over Italy, including Sardinia, who complained of slowdowns and even the impossibility of proceeding with the balance, if not through cash.
The inefficiency allegedly concerned ATMs and credit cards of Intesa Sanpaolo, UniCredit, Poste Italiane and Bnl Bnp Paribas, which were refused by pos machines at the time of payment in the various commercial activities. On the other hand, withdrawals from the ATMs of the various credit institutions are minimally involved.
The Downdetector site reported the incident, which collects reports of problems encountered by the main banks. Thousands of complaints, entrusted to social networks, of users, often forced to leave the shopping already done at the checkout counters of shops and supermarkets to go and get cash.
Over the course of the day, the situation gradually returned to normal, with the postal police initiating investigations together with the technicians of Nexi, the main manager of electronic payments in Italy, to trace the causes of the technical problems.
From what has been learned, no traces of cyber attacks have emerged: the experts have instead found a technical failure.
Ibm, supplier of Nex-Sia, the main manager of electronic payments in Italy which many banks and post offices rely on, suffered the inconvenience. In fact, payments with cards from credit institutions that rely on the Dutch Equens network did not slow down.
"The problems were, however, temporary, explained Nexi, and lasted about half an hour between 11.45 and 12.15, affecting only some areas." The service then resumed working properly even if in some situations 'queues' accumulated. in transactions to be completed.
(Unioneonline / lf)
