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Capitec Chaos: Nationwide Outage and Tech Issues Shake South Africa

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Capitec Bank in turmoil! ATMs and online services offline. Microsoft users stranded. What's happening? Find out more!

Capitec Bank Holdings, South Africa's largest bank, is facing a major crisis with nationwide system issues due to global technical glitches. The bank's customers are left stranded as ATMs and online services are down, causing chaos and frustration. The tech issues are believed to be linked to problems with cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike, impacting not only Capitec but also Microsoft users who are experiencing disruptions in accessing Microsoft 365 apps and services. The situation has escalated with repeated outages, leaving both Capitec and Microsoft users in distress.

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Capitec says its systems hit by global outage (Moneyweb.co.za)

Capitec Bank Holdings, South Africa's biggest bank by customers, said it's facing nationwide system issues after a series of global technical glitches ...

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Capitec and Microsoft hit with tech issues causing chaos for clients (Independent Online)

Capitec and Microsoft users were hit with major tech issues on Friday and this could be directly related to a failure with cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike.

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Capitec offline, ATMs and online services not working (TimesLIVE)

Capitec customers were left in the lurch on Friday morning as the bank experienced nationwide technical issues with ATMs and online transactions not ...

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Capitec down again following yet another nationwide outage ... (htxt.africa)

The mobile app and internet banking services of Capitec are down following an outage this morning. Capitec says that it is experiencing nationwide service ...

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Capitec services disrupted while Microsoft users are hit with outage (CapeTown ETC)

Microsoft users were unable to access a variety of Microsoft 365 apps and services on Friday morning. Earlier, a Microsoft cloud services outage grounded ...

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Nationwide Capitec outage - Here is what we know (Rekord East)

Capitec experienced a nationwide outage that disrupted all its customer-facing services. Here is what we know.

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Capitec restores some services amid global outages - TechCentral (TechCentral)

Capitec Bank, South Africa largest retail bank, has restored functionality to its ATMs and banking app following disruptions to its services on Friday ...

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Massive Capitec outage (MyBroadband)

The problem was caused by downtime at cloud cybersecurity platform Crowdstrike. Outage tracking website Downdetector showed a big surge in reports of issues ...

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Capitec ATMs and online services offline on Friday morning (Business Day)

'We are experiencing nationwide service issues including card,' Capitec said in a message.

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Capitec of South Africa Says Its Systems Hit by Global Outage (BNN)

Capitec Bank Holdings Ltd., South Africa's biggest bank by customers, said it's facing nationwide system issues after a series of global technical glitches ...

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Capitec and eNCA offline earlier on Friday in worldwide outage (Business Day)

Capitec branch. File picture: FREDDY MAVUNDA. Crashes on Microsoft's Windows operating system globally involving cybersecurity company CrowdStrike have spread ...

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What caused Capitec's total blackout (MyBroadband)

Capitec says its nationwide outage was the result of a global problem caused by cybersecurity platform provider Crowdstrike. Crowdstrike confirmed the issue ...

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Microsoft users hit by massive outage, while Capitec services are ... (News24)

Microsoft users were unable to access various Microsoft 365 apps and services on Friday morning. Earlier, a Microsoft cloud services outage grounded planes ...

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Capitec Down? Suffering The Blue Screen Of Death? Crowdstrike Is ... (Stuff Magazines)

There's a good chance that when you woke up this morning, Crowdstrike was as unfamiliar a name as Joe two doors down. By this evening...

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Capitec Bank affected by worldwide technical issues (Independent Online)

Capitec, which is the biggest bank by customers in South Africa took to social media platform, X, formerly known as Twitter to give more details about the ...

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Capitec restores services after Crowdstrike outage (ITWeb)

The bank says its tech team has worked quickly to resolve the problem and all banking has now been fully restored.

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Service restored at South African lenders Capitec and Absa after ... (Reuters)

Services of South African lenders Capitec Bank and Absa have been fully restored after experiencing disruptions early on Friday, both companies said, ...

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SA airlines see glitches, Capitec and Absa say services restored ... (TimesLIVE)

Services of Capitec Bank and Absa have been fully restored after experiencing disruptions early on Friday, the companies said.

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Capitec says systems are back online following disruptions across ... (Independent Online)

Capitec told Business Report that their banking systems are back online following the technical difficulties it experienced.

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SA's Capitec hit โ€“ Botched update of cybersecurity program causes ... (Daily Maverick)

In what will go down as the most spectacular IT failure the world has ever seen, a botched software update from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike Holdings Inc.

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SA airlines see glitches, Capitec and Absa say services restored ... (SowetanLIVE)

Services of Capitec Bank and Absa have been fully restored after experiencing disruptions early on Friday, the companies said.

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The software that brought Capitec to its knees (MyBroadband)

Mission-critical computer systems worldwide were brought to their knees on Friday due to a faulty update to CrowdStrike Falcon.

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Words on wealth: Capitec, EAOs, and the taming of the credit industry (Independent Online)

In the early years of our democracy, South Africa was the Wild West for consumers as far as accessing credit was concerned.

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