National Telstra outage cripples payments across banks, retailers, ATMs

By Julian Bajkowski on Jul 12, 2019 7:01AM

COIN network croaks, retailers and payments down.

Key Points: Payments, ATMs and EFTPOS across Australia were knocked offline by a Telstra outage. Telstra services have been restored. Severity of the incident varied depending on reliance on Telstra and 4G back-up. Cause of the outage is Telstra's COIN network that moves eftpos, ATM and ...

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