Thousands of customers were unable to send letters or parcels Post office Was killed by one “Major outage,
Postal firm, compared to which 11,500 branchesA huge IT was hit by blackout for hours as fierce customers were removed at the door.
The company said that outage affected it Complete property And was not related to cyber, but did not specify what is the reason for this.
One customer said: “I went for 25 minutes for the post office in the flip flop, so that the system could tell me that the system is down and is back tomorrow.”
Another couple: “I went to my local post office today first and they told me that they could not log into the system.”
A hint read in Brighton: “Brighton Post Office System has shut down due to crash. We are currently unable to process any transaction at this time. We hope to solve it as soon as possible.”
According to the outage -measuring website, most of the reported issues were in London, Birmingham and Manchester.
A spokesperson of the post office said: “There was a big outage in the post office property this afternoon. We are happy to announce that the service has now been restored in the branches.
“This is not a cyber-related issue. We are aware of what causes this outage. We apologize for any inconvenience to customers and our branches operators.”
Earlier this year, the Marx and Spencer lost around £ 300 meters, as a cyber attack left the vacant shelves in some shops and the online order is incomplete.
The British High Street Retailer offered the system offline after being targeted by hackers around the Easter weekend – a step that had a knock -on influence on its operation.
Customer personal data, which could include names, email addresses, postal addresses and date of birth, was taken by hackers in the attack.
Last week, three teenagers and a young woman were arrested in connection with a cyber attack. The arrest consists of three men – one age 17 and the other two from 19 – West Middlelands and London.
A 20 -year -old British woman from Staffordshire was also arrested last Tuesday.