Google apologises after a 'power event' at its London datacentre knocked out banks, courts and the NHS app
Revolut customers were left unable to make card payments, transfer money or withdraw cash, and more than 1,500 reported problems on Downdetector. HSBC, Lloyds, Halifax, Royal Mail and DPD were also hit after the europe-west2 zone failed. By 3pm Google said most customers had recovered. It has promised to publish an analysis once its internal investigation is complete.
The Bank of England is now investigating the Google outage.
Britons have been told to carry emergency cash after the banking app crash.
Court live streams went down, and some trials were put on hold.
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